1 /* mini man implementation for busybox
2 * Copyright (C) 2008 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
3 * Licensed under GPLv2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
10 OPT_w = 2, /* print path */
13 /* This is what I see on my desktop system being executed:
19 gunzip -c '/usr/man/man1/bzip2.1.gz'
22 ) | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | less
26 /* Trick gcc to reuse "cat" string. */
27 #define STR_catNULmanNUL "cat\0man"
28 #define STR_cat "cat\0man"
30 static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename, int cat)
34 if (access(man_filename, R_OK) != 0)
37 if (option_mask32 & OPT_w) {
42 /* "2>&1" is added so that nroff errors are shown in pager too.
43 * Otherwise it may show just empty screen */
44 cmd = xasprintf(cat ? "%s '%s' | %s"
45 : "%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | %s",
46 unpacker, man_filename, pager);
52 /* man_filename is of the form "/dir/dir/dir/name.s.bz2" */
53 static int show_manpage(const char *pager, char *man_filename, int cat)
57 if (run_pipe("bunzip2 -c", pager, man_filename, cat))
60 len = strlen(man_filename) - 1;
62 man_filename[len] = '\0'; /* ".bz2" -> ".gz" */
63 man_filename[len - 2] = 'g';
64 if (run_pipe("gunzip -c", pager, man_filename, cat))
67 man_filename[len - 3] = '\0'; /* ".gz" -> "" */
68 if (run_pipe(STR_cat, pager, man_filename, cat))
74 int man_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
75 int man_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
81 char *cur_path, *cur_sect;
86 opt_complementary = "-1"; /* at least one argument */
87 opt = getopt32(argv, "+aw");
90 sec_list = xstrdup("1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9");
91 /* Last valid man_path_list[] is [0x10] */
92 man_path_list = xzalloc(0x11 * sizeof(man_path_list[0]));
94 man_path_list[0] = xstrdup(getenv("MANPATH"));
97 pager = getenv("MANPAGER");
99 pager = getenv("PAGER");
105 cf = fopen_or_warn("/etc/man.conf", "r");
107 /* go through man configuration file and search relevant paths, sections */
108 while ((line = xmalloc_fgetline(cf)) != NULL) {
109 trim(line); /* remove whitespace at the beginning/end */
110 if (isspace(line[7])) {
112 value = skip_whitespace(&line[8]);
113 *skip_non_whitespace(value) = '\0';
114 if (strcmp("MANPATH", line) == 0) {
115 man_path_list[count_mp] = xstrdup(value);
117 /* man_path_list is NULL terminated */
118 man_path_list[count_mp] = NULL;
119 if (!(count_mp & 0xf)) { /* 0x10, 0x20 etc */
120 /* so that last valid man_path_list[] is [count_mp + 0x10] */
121 man_path_list = xrealloc(man_path_list,
122 (count_mp + 0x11) * sizeof(man_path_list[0]));
125 if (strcmp("MANSECT", line) == 0) {
127 sec_list = xstrdup(value);
135 // TODO: my man3/getpwuid.3.gz contains just one line:
136 // .so man3/getpwnam.3
137 // (and I _dont_ have man3/getpwnam.3, I have man3/getpwnam.3.gz)
138 // need to support this...
141 do { /* for each argv[] */
144 while ((cur_path = man_path_list[cur_mp++]) != NULL) {
145 /* for each MANPATH */
146 do { /* for each MANPATH item */
147 char *next_path = strchrnul(cur_path, ':');
148 int path_len = next_path - cur_path;
150 do { /* for each section */
151 char *next_sect = strchrnul(cur_sect, ':');
152 int sect_len = next_sect - cur_sect;
156 /* Search for cat, then man page */
157 while (cat0man1 < 2) {
159 man_filename = xasprintf("%.*s/%s%.*s/%s.%.*s" ".bz2",
161 STR_catNULmanNUL + cat0man1 * 4,
165 found_here = show_manpage(pager, man_filename, cat0man1);
167 cat0man1 += found_here + 1;
171 if (found && !(opt & OPT_a))
173 cur_sect = next_sect;
174 while (*cur_sect == ':')
177 cur_path = next_path;
178 while (*cur_path == ':')
183 bb_error_msg("no manual entry for '%s'", *argv);