Man page in browser

[Michael Schaap]

Hi all,

I wrote a little script to open man pages in a web browser, and thought 
that people might be interested
So here it is.  It definitely works under Windows 2000/NT, and should work 
under Win9x, but I haven't seen a Win9x box in a while, so I can't be sure. ;-)

Have fun with it,

  - Michael

==========8<==========/usr/local/bin/bman==========8<==========
#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z $MANPATH ]]; then
     manpath="/usr/local/man /usr/man"
else
     manpath=${MANPATH//:/ }
fi

if [[ x$OS == xWindows_NT ]]; then
     startcmd="cmd /c start"
else
     startcmd="start"
fi

if [[ $# -gt 2 || $# -eq 0 ]]; then
     echo
     echo Usage: `basename $0` [section] topic
     echo
     exit 2
elif [[ $# -eq 2 ]]; then
     section=$1
     topic=$2
elif [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then
     section='?'
     topic=$1
fi

tmpfile=/tmp/$topic.html
rm -f $tmpfile

manfile=
for m in $manpath; do
     for d in $m/man$section; do
         if [[ -d $d ]]; then
             for f in [[ $d/$topic.* ]]; do
                 if [[ -f $f ]]; then
                     manfile=$f
                     break 3
                 fi
             done
         fi
     done
done

if [[ -z $manfile ]]; then
     echo
     echo `basename $0`: no man page found for $topic
     echo
     exit 1
else
     man2html $manfile > $tmpfile
     chmod +x $tmpfile
     $startcmd `cygpath -w $tmpfile`
fi
==========8<==========/usr/local/bin/bman==========8<==========


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