On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 01:00:35 -0500
Eric Andrew Lewis wrote:
> In short, I'd like to make a program that does this:
>
> $ explain "rm -rf *"
> rm -rf *
> ??? rm remove files or directories
> ??? -r remove directories and their contents recursively
> ??? -f ignore nonexistent file
Mike Bianchi wrote:
|On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 01:00:35AM -0500, Eric Andrew Lewis wrote:
|> In short, I'd like to make a program that does this:
|>
|> $ explain "rm -rf *"
|> rm -rf *
|> └── rm remove files or directories
|> ├── -r remove directories and their contents recursive
Hi Eric,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:50:37AM +:
> Eric Andrew Lewis wrote:
>> $ explain "rm -rf *"
>> rm -rf *
>> ? rm remove files or directories
>> ? -r remove directories and their contents recursively
>> ? -f ignore nonexistent
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 01:00:35AM -0500, Eric Andrew Lewis wrote:
> In short, I'd like to make a program that does this:
>
> $ explain "rm -rf *"
> rm -rf *
> └── rm remove files or directories
> ├── -r remove directories and their contents recursively
> ├── -f ignore nonexisten
Hi Eric,
> $ explain "rm -rf *"
> rm -rf *
> └── rm remove files or directories
> ├── -r remove directories and their contents recursively
> ├── -f ignore nonexistent files, never prompt
> └── *Remove (unlink) files matching this text pattern.
(The `text pattern' is actu
Ingo said:
For which specific purpose do you want to build this tool, and which set of
> manual pages to you want to process with it?
I would like to build a command-line port of Idan Kamara's wonderful
explainshell.com, which, given a command (e.g. rm -rf *) breaks it down it
into its constitue
Hallo Ingo,
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
|> Eric Andrew Lewis wrote on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:49:18 -0500:
|>> I'm interested in building a troff parser to extract information
|>> from manpages (e.g. what do the flags mean when we say `rm -rf *`?).
|Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:31:36 +
Hi,
> Eric Andrew Lewis wrote on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:49:18 -0500:
>> I'm interested in building a troff parser to extract information
>> from manpages (e.g. what do the flags mean when we say `rm -rf *`?).
>>
>> I'm curious, would the marked up source be the format to parse?
Which format? One t
|> I'm interested in building a troff parser to extract information from
|> manpages (e.g. what do the flags mean when we say `rm -rf *`?).
For the mdocmx(7) project i have written a simple mdoc(7) parser
in awk(1), the entire thing 18966 bytes but that includes comments
and a shell wrapper that
>> I'm interested in building a troff parser to extract information from
>> manpages (e.g. what do the flags mean when we say `rm -rf *`?).
>
> That's a hard problem. You may want to look at Eric Raymond's
> doclifter. http://www.catb.org/esr/doclifter/
Eric,
If the pages are in mdoc(7) (which
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