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.Dd May 23, 2016
.Dt APROPOS-UTILS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm apropos-utils
.Nd support functions for querying the man page index
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In apropos-utils.h
.Ft sqlite3 *
.Fn init_db "mandb_access_mode db_flag" "const char * manconf"
.Ft void
.Fn close_db "sqlite3 *db"
.Ft int
.Fn run_query "sqlite3 *db" "query_format fmt" "query_args *args"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These functions all live in the
.Pa apropos-utils.h
header file.
They operate on
.Pa /var/db/man.db
which is an SQLite database containing a full text search index of the manual
pages.
The functions provide an easy to use interface to query the database and
develop applications on top of it.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr close_db 3 ,
.Xr init_db 3 ,
.Xr run_query 3
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Abhinav Upadhyay