TOC for man

[Craig White]

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.
> 
> 
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Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>