Very Computer

Is there a way to search a text within
a Manpage with bash?

Man itself doesn't seem to have any
particular command right?

Regards
Edward WIJAYA

`man man` tells you this:

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
...
      PAGER     A program to use for interactively delivering  man
                's  output to the screen. If not set, `more -s' is
                used. See more(1).

And `man more` tells you this:

   Commands
...
      In the following commands, i is a numerical argument  (1  by
      default).
...
      in        Search for the ith occurrence of the last  pattern
                entered.
...
      i/pattern Search forward for the ith occurrence of the regu-
                lar  expression  pattern.  Display  the  screenful
                starting two lines before the line  that  contains
                the  ith match for the regular expression pattern,
                or the end of a pipe, whichever comes  first.   If
                more   is displaying a file and there is no match,
                its position in the file remains unchanged.  Regu-
                lar expressions can be edited using erase and kill
                characters.  Erasing back past  the  first  column
                cancels the search command.

--
Kevin Rodgers

This is when PAGER is set to less, which I highly recommend. It's the
best one and worth learning a bit about.

Man man; man less.

AC

man xyz - | col -b > xyz.txt

This will give you a plain-text copy of the manpage for 'xyz' in a text file.
You can then do what you like to search it.

Kevin

ps - I have noticed a high volume of posts from you in both this group and
comp.lang.perl.misc that could be solved by actually SEARCHING for an answer
and/or reading the FAQs and/or reading man pages (and perldocs). Use of
google.com and groups.google.com is highly recommended. While most folks don't
mind answering questions, after a while we get tired of seeing the same
questions repeated over and over again.

: > Hi,
: >
: > Is there a way to search a text within
: > a Manpage with bash?
: >
: > Man itself doesn't seem to have any
: > particular command right?
: >
: > Regards
: > Edward WIJAYA
:
: Others have already mentioned the man page for 'man' and using the '/' and '?'
: search keys. Another good tip to know is to use:
:
: man xyz - | col -b > xyz.txt
:
: This will give you a plain-text copy of the manpage for 'xyz' in a text file.
: You can then do what you like to search it.
:
: Kevin

Let me put in a plug for PolyGlotMan (fka RosettaMan): http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/
It's distributed along with tcl/tk (because it is the engine behind TkMan - IMHO the
best visual man reader).  The executable,  rman,  translates to various formats
including text.  Its text output is vastly superior to that produced using col because
it strips out extra blank lines and page breaks and other annoyances giving
you very clean output.  It can also produce HTML output and can be linked
to a web server to provide a hyper linked system (TkMan also acts as hypertext.)

You've got the link above.

Dan Mercer

:
: ps - I have noticed a high volume of posts from you in both this group and
: comp.lang.perl.misc that could be solved by actually SEARCHING for an answer
: and/or reading the FAQs and/or reading man pages (and perldocs). Use of
: google.com and groups.google.com is highly recommended. While most folks don't
: mind answering questions, after a while we get tired of seeing the same
: questions repeated over and over again.

Quote:> Dan Mercer

Kevin