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DWWW-FIND(8)                        Debian                        DWWW-FIND(8)

NAME
       dwww-find - find documentation related to a search argument

SYNOPSIS
       dwww-find  [--package|--menu|--documentation|--docfile|--doc-base-list]
       [--skip=number] argument [...]

DESCRIPTION
       dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line
       documentation on a Debian system via WWW.

       dwww-find  searches for a documentation related to a given program, for
       entries from Debian Documentation Menu, or at least for documents  reg-
       istered  with  doc-base.   It  returns  a  HTML-formatted document with
       search results.

OPTIONS
       --package argument
              Search for documentation (man pages, info files,  etc.)  related
              to  argument,  which can be a name of package or program that is
              installed in the system. The argument is passed  to  dwww-quick-
              find(8) to retrieve a list of names of packages related to it.

       --menu argument
              Search  for entries in Debian Documentation Menu pages generated
              by dwww-build-menu(8).

       --documentation argument
              Search in documentation files registered with doc-base.  It uses
              search++(1) for searching.

       --docfile argument
              Search  for  documentation  for package, which contains the file
              specified by the argument.  The file must be located in or below
              a  directory  that has been allowed by the system administrator;
              see dwww(7) for more info.

       --doc-base-list argument
              Show list of registerered doc-base  files  for  given  argument,
              which  should  be  specified  as format/document-id, where docu-
              ment-id is an identificator of registered doc-base document, and
              format  is a name of format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the
              document, for which the list list is to be generated.

       --skip=number
              Works only with --documentation.  Skip number of search results.

       When no options are specified, --package is assumed.

FILES
       /etc/dwww/dwww.conf
              Configuration file for dwww.

SEE ALSO
       dwww(7),   dwww-quickfind(8),   dwww-build-menu(8),    dwww-index++(8),
       search++(1),          Debian         doc-base         Manual         in
       /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html.

AUTHORS
       Lars Wirzenius.  Robert Luberda.
       See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.

dwww 1.14                     December 21th, 2020                 DWWW-FIND(8)

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