It's really quite strange to come across a tool that is incredibly useful, does exactly what I need but of which I was completely unaware. This time it is
manpages.debian.net - how long has this been around and why hasn't it been announced somewhere?
The best part is that if a manpage uses a
See also section, the references to other manpages get turned into HTML links to the relevant manpage on the site.
Getting a manpage is now as simple as:
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=%s
which makes it trivial to put this onto the epiphany smart bookmark toolbar.
The site supports:
- keyword search via apropos,
- showing manpages from each distribution, default is Sid
- rendering manpages in other formats like PDF
- translated manpages, if the translation exists.
- manpages via section
Thanks to
Patrick Schoenfeld for inadvertently leading me to the site - I couldn't find who created the site so step up and be known.
Update
To those making comments on this entry, please note:
I have nothing directly to do with the site, I just found it and blogged about it so don't use my blog as a bug list. Ta. Such comments have been deleted and further comments are now disabled for this entry.