Chapter 3. Getting information about installed documents
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# Chapter 3. Getting information about installed documents

If you want to get information about the status of an installed manual, you can use the ``-s`' or ``--status`' option of install-docs followed by the document id:

    $ install-docs -s foo
    ---document-information---
    Document: foo
    Abstract: This manual is about foos, bars, and Debian.
    Author: Wile E. Coyote
    Section: Debian
    Title: Debian Foo's Manual

    ---format-description---
    Format: debiandoc-sgml
    Files: /usr/share/doc/foo/sgml/foo.sgml.gz

    ---format-description---
    Format: html
    Files: /usr/share/doc/foo/html-sgml/*.html
    Index: /usr/share/doc/foo/html-sgml/index.html

    ---status-information---
    Control-Files: /usr/share/doc-base/foo (changed: Tue Apr  8 23:09:24 2008)

`doc-base` always creates a `/var/lib/doc-base/documents/<document-id>` file when installing a document.

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