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NAME

ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

ptx [/OPTION/]… [/INPUT/]… (without -G)
ptx /-G /[/OPTION/]… [/INPUT /[/OUTPUT/]]

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 -

Written by F. Pinard.