NAME

dbman_find.pl - search for manual pages in the manual page database.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: dbman_find.pl
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.08

SYNOPSIS

        dbman_find.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This program is here to help you search the manual page database. The manual page database is basically a three-tuple collection (discarding technical details which are of no concern). The three-tuple is: name - name of the manual page item. description - one liner about what this manual page is about. content - content of the manual page.

You can use this software to search for a manual page according to each of the three components - name, description or content.

If you are used to the legacy manual system than this: dbman_find.pl perl is the same thing as: man -k perl since by default this software searches according to the one line description in order to keep some kind of look and feel compatibility with the old man system.

Where this command is different is that you can search according to each combination of the three-tuple. For example: dbman_find.pl --name --nodescription --content [expression] will search for manual pages whose name or content matches the expression [expression] (with no regard to the one line description).

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

copyright (type: bool, default: 0)

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

minimum of [1] free arguments required no maximum limit on number of free arguments placed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV import tests
        0.01 MV dbman package creation
        0.02 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.03 MV website construction
        0.04 MV improve the movie db xml
        0.05 MV web site automation
        0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.07 MV move tests to modules
        0.08 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.