Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:55:41 -0400 (EDT) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: > upgrade 7.2 Message-ID: <20090811225541.87EE8B7B6@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <20090809135230.GA21588@kokopelli.hydra> (message from Chad Perrin on Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:52:31 -0600)
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>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:52:31 -0600,
>> Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> said:
C> An info page is almost as bad as nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
Yup. However, the GNU folks do provide something for the rest of us;
help2man accepts a GNU program name, runs it with the --help and
--version arguments, and writes a pretty good manpage.
me% wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
me% tar xzfv help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
me% cd help2man-1.36.4
me% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man
root# make install
me% make distclean
If you have GNU tar installed:
root# help2man /usr/local/bin/gtar > /usr/local/man/man1/gtar.1
--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company
Things that never happen in "Star Trek" #16:
Counsellor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
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