How to update the man page indexes

Contributed by qmchenry  
Tagged: UNIX  

New man pages are often included when you add software to your UNIX system. If you want to be able to search for these using the man keyword (-k) option, or if you get an error when trying to use this option, you need to update the windex files with one easy command.

To update the windex files for all man pages in your MANPATH, run this as superuser:

catman -w