Man1 - ptx.1

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 -

-w, *–width*=/NUMBER/

output width in columns, reference excluded

–help

display this help and exit

–version

output version information and exit

Written by F. Pinard.

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Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx
or available locally via: info ’(coreutils) ptx invocation’