This may or may not be useful to you but if you open konqueror and type man:// and then start typing a letter or letters, it will show you man pages in a web browser. Some people find this to be really helpful. Craig On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:51 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: > That's more what I'm looking for, Joseph. I've poked around with info a bit, > but didn't think of it. As you say though, unfortunately most of what I'm > looking for isn't in there. > > Would you suggest that I spend some time learning "info" and figuring out > how to put the man pages I'm interested in into the info index instead of > writing a "mansfor" script? > > Appreciate your advice. > > Joseph Sinclair wrote: > > Try "Info". Info is the replacement that GNU created for man. Unfortunately it never really caught on, but most of the core system tools and quite a bit of other things are in the Info index. > > > > Eric "Shubes" wrote: > >> I'm tired of hunting for man pages. My problem is, "man what"? > >> > >> I usually know what package I'm looking for some documentation about (or > >> want to learn about), so I "rpm -ql package | grep man" to see what man > >> pages are available. > >> > >> Is there a better way? Of course there could be. I've googled and came up > >> with nothing that's CLI oriented (which is what I want). > >> > >> I'm thinking of writing a script: > >> mansfor [package_name] > >> that will give me a nice menu of man pages to browse for a particular > >> package. That would satisfy my immediate need. Then I'd probably add -s to > >> search for a string included in a package_spec, and optional section numbers > >> to filter, so it'd look more like > >> mansfor {section_number} ... {-s} [package_spec] > >> > >> Does anyone know of something like this that already exists? I'm just not > >> inclined to reinvent the wheel. > > -- Craig White --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss