.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file. .\" .\" (c) 2001 Filip Van Raemdonck .\" .\" This manpage is in the public domain. .\" .TH update-mime-database 1 "26 Jul 2002" "Filip Van Raemdonck" "X Desktop Group" .SH NAME update-mime-database \- a program to build the Shared MIME-Info database cache .SH SYNOPSIS .B update-mime-database \-h | .B \-v | [ .B \-V ] .I MIME-DIR .SH DESCRIPTION .B update-mime-database is a program which is responsible for updating the shared mime-info cache according to the system described in the .UR http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec Shared MIME-Info Database specification .UE from the X Desktop Group. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-h\fR Print out a command summary. .TP \fB\-v\fR Print out the version information. .TP \fB\-V\fR Be verbose. .SH ARGUMENTS .TP \fBMIME-DIR\fR This is the directory for which .B update-mime-database should rebuild the cache. Mandatory if none of the options is provided. .SH AUTHOR Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org) wrote this manpage for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but it may be used by others. .SH LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002 Thomas Leonard. .br You may redistribute copies of .B update-mime-database under the terms of the GNU General Public License.