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MKID "1" "February 2012" "mkid - 4.6" "User Commands"
NAME
mkid - build an identifier database
SYNOPSIS
mkid [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Add any additional description here

Build an identifier database.

-o, --output=OUTFILE file name of ID database output

-f, --file=OUTFILE synonym for --output

-i, --include=LANGS include languages in LANGS (default: "C C++ asm")

-x, --exclude=LANGS exclude languages in LANGS

-l, --lang-option=L:OPT pass OPT as a default for language L (see below)

-m, --lang-map=MAPFILE use MAPFILE to map file names onto source language

-d, --default-lang=LANG make LANG the default source language

-p, --prune=NAMES exclude the named files and/or directories

-v, --verbose report per file statistics

-s, --statistics report statistics at end of run

--files0-from=F tokenize only the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F

--help display this help and exit

--version output version information and exit

FILE may be a file name, or a directory name to recursively search. If no FILE is given, the current directory is searched by default. Note that the `--include' and `--exclude' options are mutually-exclusive.

The following arguments apply to the language-specific scanners:

"C language:"

-k,--keep=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

-i,--ignore=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

-u,--strip-underscore Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

"C++ language:"

-k,--keep=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

-i,--ignore=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

-u,--strip-underscore Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

"Java language:"

-k,--keep=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, keep the result

-i,--ignore=CHARS Allow CHARS in single-token strings, toss the result

-u,--strip-underscore Strip a leading underscore from single-token strings

"Assembly language:"

-c,--comment=CHARS Any of CHARS starts a comment until end-of-line

-k,--keep=CHARS Allow CHARS in tokens, and keep the result

-i,--ignore=CHARS Allow CHARS in tokens, and toss the result

-u,--strip-underscore Strip a leading underscore from tokens

-n,--no-cpp Don't handle C pre-processor directives

"Text language:"

-i,--include=CHAR-CLASS Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token constituents

-x,--exclude=CHAR-CLASS Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token delimiters

"Perl language:"

-i,--include=CHAR-CLASS Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token constituents

-x,--exclude=CHAR-CLASS Treat characters of CHAR-CLASS as token delimiters

-d,--dtags Include documentation tags

Lisp language:

"REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org
"SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for mkid is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mkid programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info mkid

should give you access to the complete manual.