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OMG, that's really ingenious.

Sidahmed
– Sidahmed

2017-01-01 21:26:43 +00:00
Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 21:26
@schaiba If we tie this to a script, will be almost perfect (i can do that...). There is a kind of failure due to the web site (die.net), since die.net does not provide some /a lot of man pages (i.e yad). I think in my dream i imagine a script that could locate man pages for almost any command... Maybe the script i imagine of should poke the web to locate the man page requested...

George Vasiliou
– George Vasiliou

2017-01-01 21:45:48 +00:00
Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 21:45
Maybe the Google Custom Search API might be of some interest.

schaiba
– schaiba

2017-01-01 21:49:58 +00:00
Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 21:49
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@GeorgeVasiliou Just a question: How would you ensure that you got the manual for what's installed on your system, or even a manual that was relevant to your flavour of Unix? Some utilities have the same name on different systems, but very different semantics. Sometimes an online manual might describe extensions that aren't even available on the system you're interested in. Are you even concerned about versions and outdated manuals?

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2017-01-01 21:50:20 +00:00
Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 21:50
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@GeorgeVasiliou Ho hum... At that stage, you might just as well pull the manual out of the package itself.

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2017-01-01 22:42:39 +00:00
Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 22:42

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