1PTX(1) User Commands PTX(1)
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6 ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents
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9 ptx [OPTION]... [INPUT]... (without -G)
10 ptx -G [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]
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13 Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input
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16 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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21 -A, --auto-reference
22 output automatically generated references
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24 -G, --traditional
25 behave more like System V 'ptx'
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27 -F, --flag-truncation=STRING
28 use STRING for flagging line truncations. The default is '/'
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30 -M, --macro-name=STRING
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33 -O, --format=roff
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36 -R, --right-side-refs
37 put references at right, not counted in -w
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39 -S, --sentence-regexp=REGEXP
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45 -W, --word-regexp=REGEXP
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48 -b, --break-file=FILE
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57 -i, --ignore-file=FILE
58 read ignore word list from FILE
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71 --help display this help and exit
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73 --version
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77 Written by F. Pinard.
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80 GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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84 Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
85 GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
86 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
87 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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90 Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx>
91 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'
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95GNU coreutils 8.32 April 2020 PTX(1)