NAME
dbman_find.pl - search for manual pages in the manual page database.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
DETAILS
MANIFEST: dbman_find.pl
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.08SYNOPSIS
dbman_find.pl [options]DESCRIPTION
This program is here to help you search the manual page database. The manual page database is basically a three-tuple collection (discarding technical details which are of no concern). The three-tuple is: name - name of the manual page item. description - one liner about what this manual page is about. content - content of the manual page.
You can use this software to search for a manual page according to each of the three components - name, description or content.
If you are used to the legacy manual system than this: dbman_find.pl perl is the same thing as: man -k perl since by default this software searches according to the one line description in order to keep some kind of look and feel compatibility with the old man system.
Where this command is different is that you can search according to each combination of the three-tuple. For example: dbman_find.pl --name --nodescription --content [expression] will search for manual pages whose name or content matches the expression [expression] (with no regard to the one line description).
OPTIONS
- help (type: bool, default: 0)
-
display help message
- pod (type: bool, default: 0)
-
display pod options snipplet
- man (type: bool, default: 0)
-
display manual page
- quit (type: bool, default: 0)
-
quit without doing anything
- gtk (type: bool, default: 0)
-
run a gtk ui to get the parameters
- license (type: bool, default: 0)
-
show license and exit
- copyright (type: bool, default: 0)
-
show copyright and exit
- description (type: bool, default: 0)
-
show description and exit
- history (type: bool, default: 0)
-
show history and exit
minimum of [1] free arguments required no maximum limit on number of free arguments placed
BUGS
None.
AUTHOR
Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZERHISTORY
0.00 MV import tests
0.01 MV dbman package creation
0.02 MV more thumbnail issues
0.03 MV website construction
0.04 MV improve the movie db xml
0.05 MV web site automation
0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.07 MV move tests to modules
0.08 MV md5 issuesSEE ALSO
Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)
TODO
Nothing.