[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

man tool



Hi all

I'm thinking to start to develop an easy tool to search through man
pages. It should find strings and return a list of voices. Any voice is
the name to request to man ("man voice") to view the page containing
finded string.

This is really useful for programmers. Too many times they need to find
a function's description or the form of a struct.

The idea is that:

-=> "man-search _options_ string"

string: voice
string: voice
string: voice
etc   <=-

and the method:
get the paths (easy, with manpath) 
start grep with correct arguments (why implement another, if it's so useful?)
parsing results
returning formatted output

My time's not infinite. In this days i'm almost busy with other
programs. If any wants to partecipate development, lets contact me
at address mij@fastwebnet.it.

bye



Reply to: