update-mime-database - Info database cache
update-mime-database -h | -v | [ -V | -n ] MIME-DIR
update-mime-database(1) X Desktop Group update-mime-database(1) NAME update-mime-database - a program to build the Shared MIME-Info database cache SYNOPSIS update-mime-database -h | -v | [ -V | -n ] MIME-DIR DESCRIPTION update-mime-database is a program which is responsible for updating the shared mime-info cache according to the system described in the Shared MIME-Info Database specification <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec> from the X Desktop Group. OPTIONS -h Print out a command summary. -v Print out the version information. -V Be verbose. -n Only update if MIME-DIR/packages/ or a file in that directory is newer than MIME-DIR/version. This is useful for package pre- and post-installation scripts. ARGUMENTS MIME-DIR This is the directory for which update-mime-database should rebuild the cache. Mandatory if none of the options is provided. AUTHOR Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org) wrote this manpage for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but it may be used by others. LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002 Thomas Leonard. You may redistribute copies of update-mime-database under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | data/shared-mime-info | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared- mime-info/uploads/b27eb88e4155d8fccb8bb3cd12025d5b/shared-mime- info-1.15.tar.xz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime- info/. Filip Van Raemdonck 26 Jul 2002 update-mime-database(1)