Technical Notes

Manpages - fc-scan.1

NAME

fc-scan - scan font files or directories

SYNOPSIS

fc-scan [ -Vh ]

[ * [ -f format ] [ –format format ] * ] [ –version ] [ –help ] file…

DESCRIPTION

fc-scan scans /file/(s) recursively and prints out font pattern for each face found.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-f
Format output according to the format specifier format.
-V
Show version of the program and exit.
-h
Show summary of options.
file
Scan file recursively for font faces.

RETURN CODES

fc-scan returns error code 0 if at least one font was found or 1 otherwise.

SEE ALSO

*fc-query*(1) *FcFileScan*(3) *FcDirScan*(3) *FcPatternFormat*(3) *fc-cat*(1) *fc-cache*(1) *fc-list*(1) *fc-match*(1) *fc-pattern*(1)

The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>.