On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's > > wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages > > because it's not indexed. > > > > So I started building a Perl script to create a top-level > > HTML index page automatically from the .html files it > > finds lying around. I started with just the contents of > > /usr/share/doc. > > > > Before I go too much farther, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows > > of an existing product (that is surely more refined than > > this little starter gizmo I've got so frar) that does the > > same or similar thing? > > > > If not, are there any other places where generally useful > > HTML might be hiding? > > > > I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire > filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching > portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... > > Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document > indexes...
I, for one, would be interested in seeing a copy of your script :-> David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
