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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

Let's try again, with another fix and an improvement:

(I neglected to include full paths to all the files referred
to.)

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 07:35:52PM +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

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#!/bin/sh

#for plain text man pages gzipped in /usr/man
 
# put your favorite editor here

ed=/usr/bin/nvi
 
# assign first arg to man on the commandline to the variable
# 'file'
file=$1

# test if there isn't any such manpage, and if that's the 
# case, say so and exit with an error code (1)

if ! test -s /usr/man/${file}.gz
then echo "No Such Manpage"
exit 1
fi
 
# see if /usr/man/${1}.gz is a symlink.
 
if test -h /usr/man/${file}.gz
 
# if it is, extract the name of the manpage, minus the ".gz"
# and assign it to $file
 
then file=`ls -l /usr/man/${file}.gz | sed -n 's/^\(.* \)\(.*\)\(.gz$\)/\2/p'`
fi

gunzip /usr/man/${file}.gz &&
$ed /usr/man/${file} &&
gzip /usr/man/${file}

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Lee :-/

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