TOC for man

[Craig White]

That's when working on a desktop and using ssh comes in handy.

Craig

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:57 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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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Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>