FC-SCAN

Section: (1)
Updated: Jan 15, 2009
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NAME

fc-scan - scan font files or directories  

SYNOPSIS

fc-scan [ -Vh ]


 [  [ -f format ]  [ --format format ]  ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]  file...  

DESCRIPTION

fc-scan scans file(s) recursively and prints out font pattern for each face found.  

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-f
Format output according to the format specifier format.
-V
Show version of the program and exit.
-h
Show summary of options.
file
Scan file recursively for font faces.
 

RETURN CODES

fc-scan returns error code 0 if at least one font was found or 1 otherwise.  

SEE ALSO

fc-query(1) FcFileScan(3) FcDirScan(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1)

The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.  

AUTHOR

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.