NAME
Sman - Tool for searching and indexing man pages
SYNOPSIS
% sman boot disk
# searches for man pages about 'boot disk'
% sman -m 10 -f -r linux kernel
# show first 10 hits about the linux kernel
# with the manpage's Rank and Filename
% sman '(linux and kernel and module) or (eepro100 and ipchains)'
# a more complex query
% sman swishtitle=linux and desc=kernel
# where title contains 'linux' and description contains 'kernel'
DESCRIPTION
Sman is the Searcher for Man pages. It depends on an index which is built by the included sman-update which by default resides in /var/lib/sman/sman.index.
The two included progams, sman and sman-update, will both search for the first configuration file named sman.conf in /etc, /usr/local/etc/, $HOME, or the directory with sman. If no sman.conf file is found (or specified through the --config option), then the default configuration in /usr/local/etc/sman-defaults.conf will be used.
NOTE: In all cases command line options take precedence over directives read from configuration files.
AUTHOR
Josh Rabinowitz <joshr>