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EBROWSE(1) General Commands Manual EBROWSE(1)

📛 NAME

ebrowse — create a class hierarchy database

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Create database from a single source file	ebrowse file.cpp	Parse C++ file and emit class hierarchy data
📂 Create database from multiple files	ebrowse *.cpp	Parse all C++ files in the current directory
📎 Append to existing database	ebrowse -a file.cpp	Add new data to an existing BROWSE file
💾 Specify output file name	ebrowse -o db file.cpp	Write database to db instead of BROWSE
🔊 Enable verbose output	ebrowse -v file.cpp	Print progress information during processing

📋 SYNOPSIS

ebrowse [options] [FILES...]

📖 DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the ebrowse command. Full documentation is available in the GNU Info format.

ebrowse is used to create the database used by the class browser in Emacs.

⚙️ OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (“-”).

• -a, --append — 📎 append output to existing file
• -f, --files=FILES — 📂 read input file names from FILE
• -I, --search-path=LIST — 🔍 set search path for input files
• -m, --min-regexp-length=N — 🔽 set minimum regexp length to N
• -M, --max-regexp-length=N — 🔼 set maximum regexp length to N
• -n, --no-nested-classes — 🚫 exclude nested classes
• -o, --output-file=FILE — 💾 set output file name to FILE
• -p, --position-info — 📍 print info about position in file
• -s, --no-structs-or-unions — 🏗️ don't record structs or unions
• -v, --verbose — 🔉 be verbose
• -V, --very-verbose — 🔊 be very verbose
• -x, --no-regexps — 🚫 don't record regular expressions
• --help — ❓ display this help
• --version — ℹ️ display version info

📚 SEE ALSO

emacs(1), etags(1), and the full documentation for ebrowse which is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ebrowse programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info ebrowse

should give you access to the complete manual.

✍️ AUTHOR

Ebrowse was written by Gerd Moellmann.

📄 COPYING

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EBROWSE(1)

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