On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Siteshwar Vashisht <sitesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any option in groff to parse only a specifiec section of man page > ? For e.g. when I say > > groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man passwd > > It parses and shows me the whole page. What if I want to parse only OPTIONS > section ? I am looking for something like :- > > groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man -parse-section "OPTIONS" passwd If you know what section immediately follows, and you're working at the console, you could pipe the output through awk: nroff -man apage.1 | awk '/^OPTIONS/, /^DESC/' -- Larry
