PTX

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2012
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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 if FILE is -, read Standard Input. `-F /' by default.  

AUTHOR

Written by F. Pinard.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report ptx bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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 command

info coreutils aqptx invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.

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