---
name: "dwww-format-man"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "dwww"
version: "1.16"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dwww-format-man"
---

# dwww-format-man(8)

batch format manual pages for dwww

## NAME

dwww-format-man - batch format manual pages for dwww

## SYNOPSIS

**dwww-format-man** \[**-v**\|**--verbose**\] *directory* *...*

## DESCRIPTION

**dwww-format-man** looks for manual pages in the directories named on the command line. It formats each manual page, and puts the formatted version into the dwww document cache. System administrator's can run **dwww-format-man** if they want to make it faster to retrieve manual pages via dwww. If **dwww-format-man** is not run, dwww will automatically format manual pages not in its cache. Long pages take a few moments to format, but rarely so slow that it is worth running.

**dwww-format-man** runs [**dwww-convert**(8)](/dwww-convert/8.md) with privileges of DWWW\_CGIUSER (see [**dwww**(7)](/dwww/7.md)).

## OPTIONS

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Print each processed file name.

## SEE ALSO

[**dwww**(7)](/dwww/7.md), [**dwww-convert**(8)](/dwww-convert/8.md).

## AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius \<liw@iki.fi\>. Slightly modified by Robert Luberda \<robert@debian.org\>.\
 See [**dwww**(7)](/dwww/7.md) for copyrights and stuff.