Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:43:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <14792.16506.717529.63522@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <48013240@toto.iv>
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Bruce Petro writes: > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries. > > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available: > catman(1) - preformat man pages > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages > ... on and on, a long list ... > > > So I guess my question is as follows: > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this? Actually, whatis (aka "man -k") will try and do that if you ask for all pages that match an empty keyword. Sorting it is then easy: man -k '' | sort -f Getting things sorted by section is a bit harder, but this does it: man -k '' | sed -e h -e 's/).*//' -e 's/.*(//' -e G -e 's/\n/:/' | sort -n Ok, the sed script ought to go in a file, but then I couldn't do it on one (long) line :-). > 2. Is there a HTML site somewhere that perhaps gives a summary of the standard man pages either alphabetically or even better a summary of man pages ordered by categories! Not that I know of, but it wouldn't be hard to generate from the above. BTW, wrapping your text lines makes it more likely that people will respond to your questions. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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