TOC for man

[Eric "Shubes"]

That's a cool konqueror feature, Craig. Thanks for the tip.

I'm looking for something for the CLI though, as many of the mail servers
I'm working with don't have a GUI installed.

Craig White wrote:
> 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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-Eric 'shubes'