LEXGROG
Section: マニュアルページユーティリティー (1)
Updated: 2023-01-08
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名前
lexgrog - マニュアルページのヘッダー情報を解釈する
書式
lexgrog [-m|-c] [-dfw?V] [-E encoding]
file ...
説明
lexgrog is an implementation of the traditional "groff guess"
utility in lex. It reads the list of files on its command line as either
man page source files or preformatted "cat" pages, and displays their
name and description as used by apropos and whatis, the list of
preprocessing filters required by the man page before it is passed to
nroff or troff, or both.
If its input is badly formatted, lexgrog will print "parse failed";
this may be useful for external programs that need to check man pages for
correctness. If one of lexgrog's input files is "-", it will read
from standard input; if any input file is compressed, a decompressed version
will be read automatically.
オプション
- -d, --debug
-
デバッグ情報を表示します。
- -m, --man
-
Parse input as man page source files. This is the default if neither
--man nor --cat is given.
- -c, --cat
-
Parse input as preformatted man pages ("cat pages"). --man and
--cat may not be given simultaneously.
- -w, --whatis
-
Display the name and description from the man page's header, as used by
apropos and whatis. This is the default if neither --whatis nor
--filters is given.
- -f, --filters
-
Display the list of filters needed to preprocess the man page before
formatting with nroff or troff.
- -E encoding, --encoding encoding
-
Override the guessed character set for the page to encoding.
- -?, --help
-
ヘルプメッセージを表示して終了します。
- --usage
-
Print a short usage message and exit.
- -V, --version
-
バージョン情報を表示します。
終了ステータス
- 0
-
プログラムが正常に実行されました。
- 1
-
Usage error.
- 2
-
lexgrog failed to parse one or more of its input files.
例
$ lexgrog man.1
man.1: "man - an interface to the system reference manuals"
$ lexgrog -fw man.1
man.1 (t): "man - an interface to the system reference manuals"
$ lexgrog -c whatis.cat1
whatis.cat1: "whatis - display manual page descriptions"
$ lexgrog broken.1
broken.1: parse failed
処理されるデータ
mandb (which uses the same code as lexgrog) parses the NAME
section at the top of each manual page looking for names and descriptions of
the features documented in each. While the parser is quite tolerant, as it
has to cope with a number of different forms that have historically been
used, it may sometimes fail to extract the required information.
When using the traditional man macro set, a correct NAME section looks
something like this:
-
.SH NAME foo \- program to do something
Some manual pagers require the '\-' to be exactly as shown;
mandb is more tolerant, but for compatibility with other systems it is
nevertheless a good idea to retain the backslash.
On the left-hand side, there may be several names, separated by commas.
Names containing whitespace will be ignored to avoid pathological behaviour
on certain ill-formed NAME sections. The text on the right-hand side is
free-form, and may be spread over multiple lines. If several features with
different descriptions are being documented in the same manual page, the
following form is therefore used:
-
.SH NAME foo, bar \- programs to do something .br baz \- program to do nothing
(A macro which starts a new paragraph, like .PP, may be used instead of
the break macro .br.)
When using the BSD-derived mdoc macro set, a correct NAME section
looks something like this:
-
.Sh NAME .Nm foo .Nd program to do something
There are several common reasons why whatis parsing fails. Sometimes
authors of manual pages replace '.SH NAME' with '.SH MYPROGRAM',
and then mandb cannot find the section from which to extract the
information it needs. Sometimes authors include a NAME section, but place
free-form text there rather than 'name \- description'. However, any
syntax resembling the above should be accepted.
関連項目
apropos(1),
man(1),
whatis(1),
mandb(8)
備考
lexgrog attempts to parse files containing .so requests, but will only be
able to do so correctly if the files are properly installed in a manual page
hierarchy.
著者
The code used by lexgrog to scan man pages was written by:
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
Colin Watson wrote the current incarnation of the command-line front-end, as
well as this man page.
バグ
https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db
Index
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- 説明
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- オプション
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- 終了ステータス
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- 例
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- 関連項目
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- 備考
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- 著者
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