ptx
produce a permuted index of file contents
TLDR
Generate a permuted index where the first field of each line is an index reference
Generate a permuted index with automatically generated index references
Generate a permuted index with a fixed width
Generate a permuted index with a list of filtered words
Generate a permuted index with SYSV-style behaviors
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.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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. The default is '/'
- -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
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'
AUTHOR
Written by F. Pinard.