One of those monumental days ........
Chris F.A. Johnson
cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 9 06:18:05 UTC 2005
yOn Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Tim Writer wrote:
> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> - Give me a large manpage, and I'll use the "/" key to find what I'm
>> looking for.
>
> Ever tried looking up something in the bash man page? Say, a builtin like
> "set". It'll take you a while to find the "set" you're looking for.
If you don't want to use the builtin help (help set), you can do:
sman bash ^SHELL\ BUILTIN\ COMMANDS ## And a few PgDns
My sman function is:
sman() {
LESS="$LESS${2:+ +/$2}" man "$@"
}
If you use the man page more than a few times, you get to know the
section headings and can go straight to them. Or you can get a
list with:
man bash | grep '^[A-Z]'
(Hmm... perhaps I'll write a little script to present a menu of
the man page headings...)
[snip]
> In general, it's not so much the format that's the problem but the
> quality and coverage of the content. Unfortunately, most developers
> (myself included) prefer writing code to documentation and there are
> relatively few volunteers who write documentation.
The bash man page is one of the best, but it requires careful
reading in some spots.
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