PTX(1)

NAME
ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

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

AUTHOR
Written by F. Pinard.

REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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 at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'