---
name: "mkhtmlindex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "imake"
version: "1.0.11-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mkhtmlindex"
---

# mkhtmlindex(1)

generate index files for HTML man pages

## NAME

mkhtmlindex - generate index files for HTML man pages

## SYNOPSIS

**mkhtmlindex** *htmlmandir*

## DESCRIPTION

The **mkhtmlindex** program generates index files for a directory of HTML-formatted manual pages. It searches for files whose names are of the form “name.1.html”, and outputs index files “manindex1.html”, “manindex.2.html”, and so on, one for each manual volume. Empty index files will be removed. Names and descriptions are found by scanning the first *\<H2\>* section of each page.

## OPTIONS

**mkhtmlindex** takes only one argument: the directory to process.

## NOTES

This utility is currently rather specific to X manual pages. In particular, the format of the index files it outputs is not configurable, nor is the HTML formatting it expects of manual pages.

## AUTHOR

The version of the **mkhtmlindex** utility included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by David Dawes as a part of XFree86.

Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.