[Tutor] man pages parser

Danny Yoo dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Fri Aug 18 16:11:31 CEST 2006


> to be able to retrieve informations from man pages, specially existing
> options and their help strings. Do you know a good way to handle this? I
> could parse directly the troff sources (is there already a parser for that?)

Hi Tiago,

Someone else has done this already.  *grin*  Check out ESR's doclifter:

     http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/


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