This mostly works for '.deb' files.
# print the archive name and the 'whatis' line of any man pages in it.
dope() { D=$1 ; dpkg-deb -c $D | grep '^-.*man' | while read a b c d e
f ; do echo $f ; done | while read x ; do basename $x ; done | tr . ' ' | while
read a b c ; do L="`ba
On Wed, 24 May 2006 02:17:28, Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Feel free to raise new bugs on other packages.
The following pair of one-liners might be of use to somebody...
% apropos "manual page for"
cddb-slave2-properties (1) - manual page for Gnome
cddb-slave2-prope
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:29:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head.
It's not complex. The problem manual pages have been generated with a
program [help2man] which interprets a program's --help output.
Unfortunately, it's not p
Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head.
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>dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93)
This is the default NAME section generated by help2man. Fairly useless,
but there needs to be *some* default.
Suggest that you file bugs on the particular packages which need either
to provide a --name="short description" arg
reassign 368383 general
thanks
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:36:08AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.4.3-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Yuck:
> $ apropos manual\ page\ for|head -n 4
> burn (1) - manual page for burn
> burn-configure (1) - manual page for burn-config
Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: normal
Yuck:
$ apropos manual\ page\ for|head -n 4
burn (1) - manual page for burn
burn-configure (1) - manual page for burn-configure
cdxa2mpeg (1)- manual page for cdxa2mpeg 0.7.23
dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock (GN
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