PTX(1)

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 /'.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Packaged by Cygwin (8.23-4) Copyright © 2014 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.

AUTHOR
Written by Francois Pinard.

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 'ptx invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.