NAME
ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents
SYNOPSIS
ptx [OPTION]... [INPUT]... (without -G)
ptx -G [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]
DESCRIPTION
Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input
files.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
-A, auto-reference
output automatically generated references
-G, traditional
behave more like System V 'ptx'
-F, flag-truncation=STRING
use STRING for flagging line truncations
-M, macro-name=STRING
macro name to use instead of 'xx'
-O, format=roff
generate output as roff directives
-R, right-side-refs
put references at right, not counted in -w
-S, sentence-regexp=REGEXP
for end of lines or end of sentences
-T, format=tex
generate output as TeX directives
-W, word-regexp=REGEXP
use REGEXP to match each keyword
-b, break-file=FILE
word break characters in this FILE
-f, ignore-case
fold lower case to upper case for sorting
-g, gap-size=NUMBER
gap size in columns between output fields
-i, ignore-file=FILE
read ignore word list from FILE
-o, only-file=FILE
read only word list from this FILE
-r, references
first field of each line is a reference
-t, typeset-mode - not implemented -
-w, width=NUMBER
output width in columns, reference excluded
help display this help and exit
version
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Default is '-F
/'.
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AUTHOR
Written by F. Pinard.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ptx is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and ptx programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
mand
info coreutils 'ptx invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 October 2018 PTX(1)