v10i063: man_burst, csh script to expand multi-name mans via .so references

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Wed Feb 14 13:01:35 AEST 1990


Posting-number: Volume 10, Issue 63
Submitted-by: news at cs.utexas.edu.uucp@@uunet.uu.net:emx.utexas.edu
Archive-name: man_burst.csh

#! /bin/sh
# This file was wrapped with "dummyshar".  "sh" this file to extract.
# Contents:  man_burst.csh
echo extracting 'man_burst.csh'
if test -f 'man_burst.csh' -a -z "$1"; then echo Not overwriting 'man_burst.csh'; else
sed 's/^X//' << \EOF > 'man_burst.csh'
X#! /bin/csh -fb
X#	shellscript "man_burst", 25.1.1990, unsupported.
X#	Christopher North-Keys (harp at mcc.com <or> erlkonig at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
X#
X#	expand multi-name man pages by adding .so references within the man dir
X#	so that man(1) can find man pages discussing multiple commands.
X#	(intended for use with the X11R4 man pages and similar situations.)
X#
X#	run within the directory in which the man pages are to be "burst",
X#	then you will probably have to run makewhatis or catman.
X#	test in verbose/no-write mode by running with -w.
X
Xif ($#argv > 0) then
X	if ("$argv[1]" == "-w") then
X		set nowrite
X		echo '--------------------NOWRITE mode set (will not write)'
X	endif
Xendif
X
Xset failures = 0
X
Xecho $cwd:h | grep -s man\$ ; @ failures += $status
Xecho $cwd:t | grep -s man   ; @ failures += $status
X
Xif ($failures) then
X	echo -n $cwd' may not be a directory of manual pages; continue? '
X	if ("$<" != "y") exit 1
Xendif
X
Xset section = `echo $cwd:t | cut -c4-`
Xset length
X
Xforeach file (*)
X	echo Checking $file
X
X	# attempt to insure that $file is a [nt]roff/tbl/eqn man sourcefile
X	file $file | grep -s 'roff'
X	if ($status) then
X		head -1 $file | grep -s '\.so'
X		if !($status) then
X			echo $file refers to another manual page.
X			continue
X		endif
X		echo $file' does not appear to be a manual page; skipping.'
X		continue
X	endif
X
X	set startline = `egrep -n ".SH NAME" $file | cut -d: -f1`
X	@ startline ++
X	set endline = `egrep -n ".SH SYNTAX"\|".SH STRUCTURES" $file | cut -d: -f1`
X	@ length = $endline - $startline
X	set names = `tail +${startline} $file | head -${length} | tr -d "," `
X
X	set suffix = $file:e	
X	foreach name ($names)
X		set target = ${name}.$suffix
X
X		if (("$name" == "\-") || ("$name" == "\")) break
X
X		echo "         "${name}
X		if (-e $target) then
X			echo already exists as $target
X			continue
X		endif
X
X		if ($?nowrite) then
X			echo "echo .so man${section}/${file} > $target"
X		else
X			echo ".so man${section}/${file}" > $target
X		endif
X	end
Xend
EOF
chars=`wc -c < 'man_burst.csh'`
if test $chars !=     1961; then echo 'man_burst.csh' is $chars characters, should be     1961 characters!; fi
fi
exit 0

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Seo:  Harp[@Mcc.Com]               /  \/\ ^*^           Christopher North-Keys
Tha mi gu trang a'cluich.         /    \ \         Assoc. Systems Analyst, MCC
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