Debian doc-base Manual - chapter 3
Getting information about installed documents

If you want to get information about the status of an installed manual, you can use the `-s' or `--status' option of install-docs followed by the document id:
$ install-docs -s foo
---document-information---
Document: foo
Abstract: This manual is about foos, bars, and Debian.
Author: Wile E. Coyote
Section: debian
Title: Debian Foo's Manual

---format-description---
Format: debiandoc-sgml
Files: /usr/doc/foo/sgml/foo.sgml.gz

---format-description---
Format: html
Files: /usr/doc/foo/html-sgml/*.html
Index: /usr/doc/foo/html-sgml/index.html

---status-information---
Control-File: ../foo-0.0/foo.desc
Registered-to-dhelp: 1
Registered-to-dwww: 1

In some cases, doc-base creates files when installing a document. For example, when a document is registered to dhelp a file `.dhelp' is generated. You can check out which files have been created by doc-base with the `-L' or `--listfiles' options followed by the document id. Here is an example:

$ install-docs -L foo
/usr/doc/foo/html-sgml/.dhelp
/usr/lib/menu/doc-base-foo


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