From 854630348c4883e1dfa32c631564d69ee8350b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:39:17 +0000 Subject: Merge rev. 1.20: Revert the argument names in the SYNOPSIS back to the usual ones. --- apropos.1 | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) diff --git a/apropos.1 b/apropos.1 index dc849ce2..b0f79fc9 100644 --- a/apropos.1 +++ b/apropos.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.21 2013/07/13 19:41:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.16.2.1 2013/09/17 20:39:17 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 17 2013 $ .Dt APROPOS 1 .Os .Sh NAME -.Nm apropos , -.Nm whatis +.Nm apropos .Nd search manual page databases .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm @@ -31,10 +30,8 @@ .Ar expression ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The -.Nm apropos -and -.Nm whatis -utilities query manual page databases generated by +.Nm +utility queries manual page databases generated by .Xr mandocdb 8 , evaluating on .Ar expression @@ -45,12 +42,13 @@ By default, searches for .Xr mandocdb 8 databases in the default paths stipulated by -.Xr man 1 -and -maps terms to case-sensitive manual names and descriptions. -Multiple terms are OR'd. -.Nm whatis -maps terms only to case-sensitive manual names. +.Xr man 1 , +parses terms as case-sensitive regular expressions +.Pq the Li \&~ operator +over manual names and descriptions +.Pq the Li \&Nm No and Li \&Nd No macro keys . +Multiple terms imply pairwise +.Fl o . .Pp Its arguments are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -81,15 +79,43 @@ See for a listing of manual sections. .El .Pp -.Nm whatis -considers an +An .Ar expression -to consist of an opaque keyword. -.Nm apropos -parses a -.Ar expression -into type and keyword pairs. -This pair syntax +consists of search terms joined by logical operators +.Fl a +.Pq and +and +.Fl o +.Pq or . +The +.Fl a +operator has precedence over +.Fl o +and both are evaluated left-to-right. +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It \&( Ar expr No \&) +True if the subexpression +.Ar expr +is true. +.It Ar expr1 Fl a Ar expr2 +True if both +.Ar expr1 +and +.Ar expr2 +are true (logical +.Qq and ) . +.It Ar expr1 Oo Fl o Oc Ar expr2 +True if +.Ar expr1 +and/or +.Ar expr2 +evaluate to true (logical +.Qq or ) . +.It Ar term +True if +.Ar term +is satisfied. +This has syntax .Li [key[,key]*(=~)]?val , where operand .Cm key @@ -103,15 +129,22 @@ See for a list of available keys. Operator .Li \&= -evaluates a full string, while +evaluates a substring, while .Li \&~ -evaluates a -.Xr glob 7 -pattern. +evaluates a regular expression. +.It Fl i Ar term +If +.Ar term +is a regular expression, it +is evaluated case-insensitively. +Has no effect on substring terms. +.El .Pp Results are sorted by manual title, with output formatted as -.Qq title(sec) \- description -where +.Pp +.D1 title(sec) \- description +.Pp +Where .Qq title is the manual's title (note multiple manual names may exist for one title), @@ -120,10 +153,18 @@ is the manual section, and .Qq description is the manual's short description. If an architecture is specified for the manual, it is displayed as -.Qq title(cat/arch) \- description . +.Pp +.D1 title(cat/arch) \- description +.Pp +Resulting manuals may be accessed as +.Pp +.Dl $ man \-s sec title +.Pp +If an architecture is specified in the output, use +.Pp +.Dl $ man \-s sec \-S arch title .Ss Macro Keys -.Nm apropos -queries evaluate over a subset of +Queries evaluate over a subset of .Xr mdoc 7 macros indexed by .Xr mandocdb 8 . @@ -219,10 +260,14 @@ If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the default list. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact -.It Pa mandocdb.db +.It Pa whatis.db name of the .Xr mandocdb 8 keyword database +.It Pa whatis.index +name of the +.Xr mandocdb 8 +filename database .It Pa /etc/man.conf default .Xr man 1 @@ -233,33 +278,35 @@ configuration file .Sh EXAMPLES Search for .Qq mdoc -as a word or -.Xr glob 7 -expression: +as a substring and regular expression +within each manual name and description: .Pp .Dl $ apropos mdoc -.Dl $ apropos any~mdoc* +.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$ .Pp Include matches for .Qq roff and .Qq man -using -.Xr glob 7 -expressions: +for the regular expression case: .Pp -.Dl $ apropos ~*mdoc* ~*roff* +.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$ roff man +.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$ \-o roff \-o man .Pp Search for +.Qq optind +and .Qq optarg -as a variable name in the library category: +as variable names in the library category: .Pp -.Dl $ apropos \-s 3 Va=optarg +.Dl $ apropos \-s 3 Va~^optind \-a Va~^optarg$ .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr glob 7 , +.Xr man 1 , +.Xr re_format 7 , .Xr mandocdb 8 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility was written by -.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . +.An Kristaps Dzonsons , +.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451