fc-cat(1)

fc-cat1

Read font information cache files

Usage

fc-cat [-rvVh] [--recurse] [--verbose] [--version] [--help] [{fonts-cache-%version%-files | dirs ...}]

Overview

fc-cat reads the font information from cache files or related to font directories and emits it in ASCII form.

Options

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-r --recurse

Recurse into subdirectories.

-v --verbose

Be verbose.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-V --version

Show version of the program and exit.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8–9
  5. 10–13
  6. Arch

--help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --recurse since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --verbose since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -h since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

-? until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

This manual page was written by Patrick Lam <[email protected]>.

From fontconfig 2:2.18.3-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.