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PTX(1)				 User Commands				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.

       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

       -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

       With no FILE or if FILE is -, read Standard Input.  `-F /' by default.

AUTHOR
       Written by F. Pinard.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report ptx bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2010  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
       The  full  documentation for ptx is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and ptx programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
       mand

	      info coreutils 'ptx invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5		  April 2010				PTX(1)
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