itsnotlupus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?English
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1 year agoThat sounds like an improbable attempt to leverage the notion that minors can’t enter into a legally binding contract into a loophole to get anything for free by simply having your kid order it.
You can list every man page installed on your system with
man -k .
, or justapropos .
But that’s a lot of random junk. If you only want “executable programs or shell commands”, only grab man pages in section 1 with a
apropos -s 1 .
You can get the path of a man page by using
whereis -m pwd
(replacepwd
with your page name.)You can convert a man page to html with
man2html
(may requireapt get man2html
or whatever equivalent applies to your distro.)That tool adds a couple of useless lines at the beginning of each file, so we’ll want to pipe its output into a
| tail +3
to get rid of them.Combine all of these together in a questionable incantation, and you might end up with something like this:
List every command in section 1, extract the id only. For each one, get a file path. For each id and file path (ignore the rest), convert to html and save it as a file named
$id.html
.It might take a little while to run, but then you could run
firefox .
or whatever and browse the resulting mess.Or keep tweaking all of this until it’s just right for you.