#!/bin/sh # # apropos -- search the whatis database for keywords. # # Copyright (c) February 1996 Wolfram Schneider . Berlin. # Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, John W. Eaton. # # You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public # License as specified in the README file that comes with the man # distribution. # # John W. Eaton # jwe@che.utexas.edu # Department of Chemical Engineering # The University of Texas at Austin # Austin, Texas 78712 # # $FreeBSD$ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH db=whatis # name of whatis data base grepopt='' # man -k complain if exit_nomatch=1 and no keyword matched : ${exit_nomatch=0} exit_error=2 # argument test case $# in 0) echo "usage: `basename $0` keyword ..." >&2 exit $exit_error ;; esac case "$0" in *whatis) grepopt='-w';; # run as whatis(1) *) grepopt='';; # otherwise run as apropos(1) esac # test manpath manpath=`%bindir%/manpath -q | tr : '\040'` case X"$manpath" in X) echo "`basename $0`: manpath is null, use \"/usr/share/man\"" >&2 manpath=/usr/share/man ;; esac # reset $PAGER if $PAGER is empty case X"$PAGER" in X) PAGER="%pager%" ;; esac man_locales=`%bindir%/manpath -qL` # search for existing */whatis databases mandir='' for d in $manpath do if [ -f "$d/$db" -a -r "$d/$db" ] then mandir="$mandir $d/$db" fi # Check for localized manpage subdirectories if [ X"$man_locales" != X ]; then for l in $man_locales do if [ -f "$d/$l/$db" -a -r "$d/$l/$db" ]; then mandir="$mandir $d/$l/$db" fi done fi done case X"$mandir" in X) echo "`basename $0`: no whatis databases in $manpath" >&2 exit $exit_error esac for manpage do if grep -hi $grepopt -- "$manpage" $mandir; then : else echo "$manpage: nothing appropriate" fi done | ( # start $PAGER only if we find a manual page while read line do case $line in # collect error(s) *": nothing appropriate") line2="$line2$line\n";; # matched line or EOF *) break;; esac done # nothing found, exit if [ -z "$line" -a ! -z "$line2" ]; then printf -- "$line2" exit $exit_nomatch else ( printf -- "$line2"; echo "$line"; cat ) | $PAGER fi )