TOC for man

[Eric "Shubes"]

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.


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-Eric 'shubes'