"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
Looks good to me. Here it is as a shell function you can put in
your
.bashrc (or startup file for some other POSIX shell).
# Search for a word in a given man page.
#
# Equivalent examples (if using man-db man): tagman am 7
groff
# tagman am
'groff(7)'
# tagman am -s 7
groff
tagman () {
word=$1
shift
man "$@" | "${PAGER:-less}" -c
'+/[^a-zA-Z0-9]'"$word"'[^a-zA-Z0-9]'
}
As a data point, this nifty function overall worked for me with
mandoc
man(1) as well, although:
* mandoc man(1) doesn't like 'groff(7)' as an argument, resulting
in
a "No entry for groff(7) in the manual" error. (`man 7 groff`
works fine.)
* i've been trialing using most(1) instead of less(1), and the
function doesn't work with the former.
Thanks!
Alexis.
(flexibeast)
