NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/unix/aux/3249

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Shell script for installing man pages (was: man's problems)
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:55:11 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Wes Price) writes:

>More specifically, is there anything that can cope with A/UX's curious
>/usr/catman hierarchy, and with the fact that there is no nroff source
>for any of those man pages, and with the fact that there may be alternate
>man-directory hierarchies which will have nroffable (i.e., not preformatted)
>man pages?

Here is a shell script by Bob Denny that I found in the archives on
aux.support.apple.com.  It makes installing aux-ready man pages
from nroff source fairly painless.  To use, copy to /usr/local/bin
and chmod 755 (or similar) to make the file executable.

#!/bin/sh
# @(#) auxman - format, pack and install manpages on A/UX
#
# Bob Denny - Sun Sep 15 15:13:12 1991
#
# If man-page ends in ".z" then pack(1) is used to compress the
# man page text prior to moving it to the final location. If pack
# fails, the page is installed without the ".z" suffix. Any pre-existing
# man page is explicitly removed (with or without the ".z") in case it
# was linked to another page, or had another page linked to it.
#
# NOTE: The "lp" terminal type is used, and sed(1) is used to remove
# the backspace-bolding stuff from nroff's output (it causes premature
# word-wrapping).
#
if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
    echo "Incorrect argument count."
    echo "Usage: auxman nroff-src man-page"
    echo "       man-page must be full pathname to location at which to"
    echo "       install the man page."
    exit 1
fi

dest=$2
destnoz=`echo $2 | sed 's/\(.*\)\.z$/\1/`

if [ -f $dest ] ; then
    rm -f $dest
fi

if [ -f $destnoz ] ; then
    rm -f $destnoz
fi

nroff -Tlp -man $1 |  sed -e 's/\([A-Za-z]\).\1.\1.\1/\1/g' > %TMP%$$

if [ `echo $dest | grep '\.z$'` ] ; then
    pack %TMP%$$ 1>/dev/null 2>&1
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
        mv %TMP%$$.z $dest || cp %TMP%$$.z $dest
    else
        dest=$destnoz    # <==== NOTE!
        cp %TMP%$$ $dest
    fi
else
    mv %TMP%$$ $dest || cp %TMP%$$  $dest
fi

rm -f %TMP%*
chgrp bin $dest
chown bin $dest
chmod 0644 $dest
exit 0

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