mingw-get install msys-groff
Paste the script below into a file "man.sh".
Run this command to install the script:
cp man.sh /usr/local/bin/man
#! /bin/sh # man.sh -- simple manpage reader script for MSYS # # Written by Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net> # and Wu Yongwei <adah@users.sourceforge.net> # # Last update: 2005-11-14 10:30 GMT # # Public domain: install as /usr/local/bin/man USAGE='Usage: man [-adw] [-C config-file] [-M path] [section] name ...' # Adjust these defaults, to suit your configuration... MANSECT_DEFAULT=1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o MANPATH_DEFAULT=/mingw/man:/mingw/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man
# Some manpages may require filtering through any subset # of the following `groff' preprocessors... # ( p = pic, e = eqn, t = tbl ) # MANROFFSEQ_ALLOWED='p:e:t' # You should not need to change anything, from here onward... # These set defaults for the command line options. # MANDEBUG=no MANCONFIG='' SHOWPATH=no ALLPAGES=no # Parse command line options... # while getopts aC:dM:w opt do case $opt in a) ALLPAGES=yes ;; C) MANCONFIG=$OPTARG ;; d) MANDEBUG=yes ;; M) MANPATH=$OPTARG ;; w) SHOWPATH=yes ;; *) exec >&2; echo $USAGE; exit 1 ;; esac done # $OPTIND always ends up being too big by one... # Adjust, and discard option arguments, (already parsed). # set dummy "$@"; shift $OPTIND # Try to locate a configuration file... # Prefer `-C config-file' option, then these common locations, in order. # for name in /usr/local/lib/man.conf /usr/share/lib/man.conf /etc/man.conf do [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && break [ -r $name ] && MANCONFIG=$name done if [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && [ $MANDEBUG = yes ]; then echo >&2 "Reading configuration file $MANCONFIG" fi # Establish the search order for manual sections... # Prefer user's $MANSECT, config-file setting, $MANSECT_DEFAULT, # in that order. # if [ -z "$MANSECT" ]; then CONFIG_KEY='/^[[:space:]]*MANSECT[[:space:]]*/s///p' [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && MANSECT=`sed -n $CONFIG_KEY $MANCONFIG 2>/dev/null` [ -z "$MANSECT" ] && MANSECT=$MANSECT_DEFAULT if [ $MANDEBUG = yes ]; then echo >&2 echo >&2 "Searching manual sections $MANSECT" fi fi # Construct the MANPATH file system search path... # Prefer user's $MANPATH, config-file settings, $MANPATH_DEFAULT, # in that order. # if [ -z "$MANPATH" ]; then CONFIG_KEY='/^[[:space:]]*MANPATH[[:space:]]\+/{s///;s/%/%25/g;s/ /%20/g;p;}' for name in `[ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && sed -n "$CONFIG_KEY" $MANCONFIG 2>/dev/null` do name=`echo "$name" | sed 's/%20/ /g;s/%25/%/g' 2>/dev/null` [ -n "$name" ] && name=`exec 2>/dev/null; cd "$name" && pwd` if [ -n "$name" ]; then if [ $MANDEBUG = yes ]; then [ -z "$MANPATH" ] && echo >&2 echo >&2 "Adding $name to MANPATH" fi name=`echo $name | sed 's/%/%25/g;s/ /%20/g' 2>/dev/null` [ -n "$MANPATH" ] && MANPATH="$MANPATH:$name" || MANPATH="$name" fi done [ -z "$MANPATH" ] && MANPATH="$MANPATH_DEFAULT" fi # From here on... # We need `IFS=:', so we can split $MANSECT and $MANPATH. # IFS=: # If first non-option argument matches any $MANSECT component, # then set up to perform a restricted search, for just that section, # and establish `not found' message format appropriately. # NOTFOUND='No manual entry for $name' for MSECT in $MANSECT do [ "$1" = "$MANSECT" ] && break if [ "$1" = "$MSECT" ]; then MANSECT="$1" NOTFOUND='No entry for $name in section'" $1 of the manual" shift fi done # Ensure we have at least one topic name to search for, # unless we are just using the `-w' option to show the MANPATH. # if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then if [ $SHOWPATH = yes ]; then echo 2>&- "MANPATH=$MANPATH" exit 0 else echo >&2 "What manual page do you want?" echo >&2 "$USAGE" exit 1 fi fi # Establish PAGER command to be used... # Prefer $MANPAGER, $PAGER, config-file setting, `less -irs', # in that order. # [ -n "$MANPAGER" ] && PAGER="$MANPAGER" if [ -z "$PAGER" ]; then CONFIG_KEY='/^[[:space:]]*PAGER[[:space:]]*/s///p' [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && PAGER=`sed -n "$CONFIG_KEY" $MANCONFIG 2>/dev/null` [ -z "$PAGER" ] && PAGER="less -irs" fi # Establish NROFF command to be used... # Prefer config-file setting, `groff -Tascii -mandoc -P-c', # in that order. # CONFIG_KEY='/^[[:space:]]*NROFF[[:space:]]*/s///p' [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && NROFF=`sed -n "$CONFIG_KEY" $MANCONFIG 2>/dev/null` [ -z "$NROFF" ] && NROFF="groff -Tascii -mandoc -P-c" # Establish the default sequence of NROFF filters to deploy... # Prefer $MANROFFSEQ, config-file setting, `t' (tbl), in that order. # if [ -z "$MANROFFSEQ" ]; then CONFIG_KEY='/^[[:space:]]*MANROFFSEQ[[:space:]]*/s///p' [ -n "$MANCONFIG" ] && MANROFFSEQ=`sed -n "$CONFIG_KEY" $MANCONFIG 2>/dev/null` [ -z "$MANROFFSEQ" ] && MANROFFSEQ=t fi # Establish display width for manpages... # Prefer $MANWIDTH, $COLS, `mandoc' default, in that order. # [ -n "$MANWIDTH" ] && COLS=$MANWIDTH [ -n "$COLS" ] && NROFF="$NROFF -rLL=${COLS}m" # For each specified topic name argument... # Walk the MANPATH, looking in each effective MANSECT directory, # for a matching topic file, and display the first matching entry. # If the `-a' option is in effect, continue for any other MANSECTs, # otherwise, move on to next topic, if any, after first match. # ERRNO=0 for name do COMPLAIN='echo >&2' for MPATH in $MANPATH do for MSECT in $MANSECT do # Normalise the file name. # MFILE=`echo "$MPATH/man$MSECT/$name.$MSECT" | sed 's/%20/ /g;s/%25/%/g'` if [ -f "$MFILE" ]; then COMPLAIN='false' if [ "$SHOWPATH" = yes ]; then echo 2>&- "$MFILE" else # Establish the list of preprocessors to deploy... # Prefer any list specified in the manpage file itself, # falling back to $MANROFFSEQ, if none. # MSEQ="" FILTERS=`sed -n "/^'"'\\\\"[[:space:]]\+\([A-Za-z]\+\)$/s//\1/p;1q' "$MFILE"` [ -z "$FILTERS" ] && FILTERS="$MANROFFSEQ" for filter in $MANROFFSEQ_ALLOWED do echo $FILTERS | grep $filter >/dev/null 2>&1 && MSEQ=$MSEQ$filter done [ -n "$MSEQ" ] && MSEQ=" -$MSEQ" # Display the selected manpage, # or its appropriate formatting command, if debugging. # if [ $MANDEBUG = yes ]; then echo >&2 echo >&2 "Not executing command:" echo >&2 " $NROFF$MSEQ \"$MFILE\" | $PAGER" else eval $NROFF$MSEQ "\"$MFILE\"" | eval $PAGER fi fi # If `-a' option given, # keep looking for other pages related to the given topic, # otherwise, break out to try a new topic. # [ $ALLPAGES = yes ] || break 2 fi done done # Handle diagnostics, and error code, for missing topics. # [ "$COMPLAIN" = "false" ] || ERRNO=1 eval $COMPLAIN $NOTFOUND done # All done... # Exit with appropriate error code. # exit $ERRNO # man.sh: end of file.
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