Automatically fetch Man pages directories

[moritzz]

Hi Yan

Thanks a lot for your work.

I'm not a Pyhton guy, so I can't code this myself. Would be great though if you could render the -p /man/page/dir [/additional/man/page/dir]optional and instead use the output of man -w as source scanning man page directories.

Yours,
M. Zimmer

[Yanpas]

Hi!

manpath seems to be most correct in listing man pages paths. I'm using arch and some of paths in those list are symlinks to other paths in this list. I want to keep this script simple and thus flexible, you can use bash! Here is the answer to your question:

python mandocset.py -p $(manpath | tr : '\n' | xargs readlink -f | sort | uniq) -o linux

Explanation

[moritzz]

Wow, thanks @Yanpas. Apparently I'm not a bash hero too... 🙂

[moritzz]

One more thing; I don't know if its due to brew not fully ported to Big Sur yet, but there seams to be some issues with man2html there. I will now try using pandoc instead. Should I keep you posted on Big Sur/man2html issues I encounter in the future?

[Yanpas]

Well, leave the comment here, maybe someone will find it useful.

Thanks in advance