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[jamtat AT mailsnare.net]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:

> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> >#!/bin/bash
> >zcat `find /usr/man/man* -name $1.*` | man2html | lynx -stdin
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Steven
>
> I installed some packages that put man pages into
> /usr/local/man/man* and /usr/X11R6/man/man*
>
> Should I modify the above to read /usr/*/man/man* ?
>
Here's what I did for those /usr/X11R6/man manpages.  I made a symlink to
the /usr/X11R6/man directory under /usr and called it "manX".  Then, I
edited the script as follows:

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#!/bin/bash
zcat `find /usr/man*/man* -name $1.*` | man2html | lynx -stdin
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(note the "man*" directly under /usr).  This seems to allow the script to
follow the symlink to the /usr/X11R6/man directory and find manpages
there, while still allowing it to find manpages under /usr/man.

James