At 9:24 PM -0500 2/7/06, Michael D. Berger wrote:
...
>This is a script that I call "mantxt" to generate text from
>man pages. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.
OK!
>--
>
>#!/bin/bash
>if test $# != 2; then
> echo "Calling Format: mantxt <section> <name>"
> exit 1
>fi
>
>if test -f /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1.gz; then
> zcat /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1.gz | groff -Tascii -mandoc | col -b
>elif test -f /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1; then
> cat /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1 | groff -Tascii -mandoc | col -b
>elif test -f /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1ssl.gz; then
> zcat /usr/share/man/man$1/$2.$1ssl.gz | groff -Tascii -mandoc | col -b
>else
> echo "cannot find file"
>fi
According to man man, you can use -W to get the path to the man page in a
form useful to xargs, something like:
man -W $1 $2 | xargs zcat | groff -Tascii -mandoc | col -b
>
>exit 0
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