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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# Script for searching man pages. The result is generated as HTML.
+#
+# This file is part of KHelpcenter.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg
+#
+# Author: Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de>
+#
+# 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+use strict;
+
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my ( $words, $maxcount, $lang, $help );
+
+GetOptions (
+ 'maxcount=s' => \$maxcount,
+ 'words=s' => \$words,
+ 'lang=s' => \$lang,
+ 'help' => \$help
+);
+
+if ( $help ) {
+ print STDERR "Usage: khc_mansearch.pl --maxcount=n --words=<string> " .
+ "--lang=<languagecode>\n";
+ exit 1;
+}
+
+if ( !$words ) {
+ print STDERR "No search words given.\n";
+ exit;
+}
+
+# Perform search
+if ( !open( MAN, "-|", "apropos", $words ) ) {
+ print "Can't open apropos.\n";
+ exit 1;
+}
+my @results;
+while( <MAN> ) {
+# print "RAW:$_";
+ chop;
+ /^([^\s]+)\s+\((.*)\)\s+-\s+(.*)$/;
+ my $page = $1;
+ my $section = $2;
+ my $description = $3;
+
+ if ( $page ) { push @results, [ $page, $section, $description ]; }
+}
+close MAN;
+
+my $nummatches = @results;
+
+if ( $nummatches > 0 ) {
+ print "<ul>\n";
+
+ my $count = 0;
+ for my $result ( @results ) {
+ my ( $page, $section, $description ) = @$result;
+ my $url = "man:" . $page;
+ print "<li><a href=\"$url\">";
+ print "$page - $description</a></li>\n";
+ if ( ++$count == $maxcount ) { last; }
+ }
+
+ print "</ul>\n";
+}
+
+1;