Date: 28 Jan 2002 22:14:00 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <o9r8o9lm53.8o9@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020127155418.G32706@roman.mobil.cz> References: <200201260704.g0Q74u864537@fedde.littleton.co.us> <02012713091300.01261@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020127155418.G32706@roman.mobil.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> writes:
> > From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD
> > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:09:13 +1030
> >
> > On Saturday 26 January 2002 17:34, Chris Fedde wrote:
> > > You might want to submit a patch to the FreeBSD Documentation project.
> >
> > Want? - Yes. Be capable of? - No.
>
> Sure you are capable of submitting patches to man pages. Here's a
> short howto:
>
> 1. step: find the source file:
I suggest:
$ man -wa passwd
/usr/share/man/cat1/passwd.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/passwd.1.gz)
/usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz
And you might find this crummy script useful, at least the two echo
lines near the bottom. (It'll probably work with first line changed to
"sh" too).
#!/bin/ksh
## This is ~/bin/prepare-man-for-pr
## Usage: prepare-man-for-pr [section number] command [section number]
## Comments use the example of shutdown command.
## WARNING: script makes bad assumption that all pages are compressed to .gz
cd /tmp
man -wa $@
echo "NOTICE: Check to see if it's a port (so no PR)."
whereis $@
MANPAGE=$(man -w $@)
## Makes "/usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz".
MANPAGE=${MANPAGE##* }
MANPAGE=${MANPAGE%)}
XXX=${MANPAGE##*/}
## Makes "shutdown.8.gz".
NEW=${XXX%.*}
## Makes "shutdown.8".
BEG=${NEW%.*}
## Makes "shutdown".
END=${NEW##*.}
## Makes "8".
OLD=$BEG..orig.$END
rm -i /tmp/$XXX /tmp/$NEW /tmp/$OLD ## 2> /dev/null
## Remove "shutdown.8.gz", "shutdown.8" and "orig-shutdown.8" with query.
zcat $MANPAGE > $OLD
## So we have somthing like "/tmp/shutdown.8".
cp -p $OLD $NEW
## So we have something like "/tmp/shutdown.8" and "/tmp/orig-shutdown.8".
echo "groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 /tmp/$NEW | less"
echo "diff -u /tmp/$OLD /tmp/$NEW >|/tmp/diffpr"
## So it can be opened with mouse and for diffing after editing.
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