[9fans] lookman

[9fans] lookman

[Skip Tavakkolian]

lookman filters out '.' (keys.who). is it worth changing?

Re: [9fans] lookman

[erik quanstrom]

isn't the current (undocumented) convention to delete the punctuation.  as in "man upasfs"
not "man upas/fs"?

- erik

[9fans] lookman

[rog]

> P.S.
> I will write on my white-board `lookman ordinary_unix_command`
> a considerable times.

that reminds me.
i've been using the following version of lookman for ages now, and
often find it more useful than the one distributed.

it does the usual keyword lookup but does a grep too so that you get
some immediate context for the hits.

e.g.
% lookman serial
9p(2)
	               fully terminate the serial conversation once the file
draw(2)
	               Turns on or off debugging output (usually to a serial
html(2)
	          serial number for the form within the document.  Name is the
	          Fbutton, Fselect or Ftextarea.  Fieldid is a serial number
	          Tableid is a serial number for the table within the docu-
	          Cellid provides a serial number for the cell within the
memdraw(2)
	          the kernel, iprint prints to a serial line rather than the
[...]

it has some obvious flaws, but is nonetheless useful, i think.

  cheers,
    rog.


#!/bin/rc
# Usage: lookman key ...
#	prints out the names of all manual pages containing all the given keywords
index=/sys/lib/man/lookman/index
t1=/tmp/look1.$pid
t2=/tmp/look2.$pid
fn sigexit sigint sighup sigterm{
	rm -f $t1 $t2
	exit 1
}
*=`{echo $*|tr A-Z a-z|tr -dc 'a-z \012'}	# fold case, delete funny chars
if(~ $#* 0){
	echo Usage: lookman key ... >/fd/2
	exit 1
}
look -x $1 $index|sed 's/.*	//'|sort -u >$t1
allkey=$*
shift
for(i in $*){
	look -x $i $index|sed 's/.*	//'|sort -u|
		awk 'BEGIN {
			while (getline < "'$t1'" > 0) table[$0] = 1;
			}
			{ if (table[$0]) print }
			' > $t2
	mv $t2 $t1
}
for (i in `{sort $t1}) {
	echo $i | sed 's:/sys/man/([0-9])/(.*):\2(\1):'
	for (j in $allkey) {
		nroff -man $i | grep -i -e $j | sed 's/^/	/'
	}
}

rm -f $t1 $t2
exit 0