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-rw-r--r--miscutils/Config.in6
-rw-r--r--miscutils/Kbuild1
-rw-r--r--miscutils/man.c151
3 files changed, 158 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in
index c6c1490df..06cac14ab 100644
--- a/miscutils/Config.in
+++ b/miscutils/Config.in
@@ -372,6 +372,12 @@ config FEATURE_MAKEDEVS_TABLE
endchoice
+config MAN
+ bool "man"
+ default n
+ help
+ Format and display manual pages.
+
config MICROCOM
bool "microcom"
default n
diff --git a/miscutils/Kbuild b/miscutils/Kbuild
index 513c03882..ba2a0dc14 100644
--- a/miscutils/Kbuild
+++ b/miscutils/Kbuild
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_HDPARM) += hdparm.o
lib-$(CONFIG_LAST) += last.o
lib-$(CONFIG_LESS) += less.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MAKEDEVS) += makedevs.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_MAN) += man.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MICROCOM) += microcom.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MOUNTPOINT) += mountpoint.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MT) += mt.o
diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed31b66c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+/* mini man implementation for busybox
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
+ * Licensed under GPLv2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+enum {
+ OPT_a = 1, /* all */
+ OPT_w = 2, /* print path */
+};
+
+/* This is what I see on my desktop system deing executed:
+
+(
+echo ".ll 12.4i"
+echo ".nr LL 12.4i"
+echo ".pl 1100i"
+gunzip -c '/usr/man/man1/bzip2.1.gz'
+echo ".\\\""
+echo ".pl \n(nlu+10"
+) | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | less
+
+*/
+
+static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename)
+{
+ char *cmd;
+
+ if (access(man_filename, R_OK) != 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (option_mask32 & OPT_w) {
+ puts(man_filename);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ cmd = xasprintf("%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | %s",
+ unpacker, man_filename, pager);
+ system(cmd);
+ free(cmd);
+ return 1;
+}
+
+/* man_filename is of the form "/dir/dir/dir/name.s.bz2" */
+static int show_manpage(const char *pager, char *man_filename)
+{
+ int len;
+
+ if (run_pipe("bunzip2 -c", pager, man_filename))
+ return 1;
+
+ len = strlen(man_filename) - 1;
+
+ man_filename[len] = '\0'; /* ".bz2" -> ".gz" */
+ man_filename[len - 2] = 'g';
+ if (run_pipe("gunzip -c", pager, man_filename))
+ return 1;
+
+ man_filename[len - 3] = '\0'; /* ".gz" -> "" */
+ if (run_pipe("cat", pager, man_filename))
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int man_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
+int man_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
+{
+ FILE *cf;
+ const char *pager;
+ char *man_path, *sec_list;
+ char *cur_path, *cur_sect;
+ char *line, *value;
+ int opt;
+
+ opt_complementary = "-1"; /* at least one argument */
+ opt = getopt32(argv, "+aw");
+ argv += optind;
+
+ sec_list = xstrdup("1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9");
+ man_path = xstrdup(getenv("MANPATH"));
+ pager = getenv("MANPAGER");
+ if (!pager) {
+ pager = getenv("PAGER");
+ if (!pager)
+ pager = "more";
+ }
+
+ /* Parse man.conf */
+ cf = fopen_or_warn("/etc/man.conf", "r");
+ if (cf) {
+ /* go through man configuration file and search relevant paths, sections */
+ while ((line = xmalloc_fgetline(cf)) != NULL) {
+ trim(line); /* remove whitespace at the beginning/end */
+ if (isspace(line[7])) {
+ line[7] = '\0';
+ value = skip_whitespace(&line[8]);
+ *skip_non_whitespace(value) = '\0';
+ if (strcmp("MANPATH", line) == 0) {
+ free(man_path);
+ man_path = xstrdup(value);
+ }
+ if (strcmp("MANSECT", line) == 0) {
+ free(sec_list);
+ sec_list = xstrdup(value);
+ }
+ }
+ free(line);
+ }
+ fclose(cf);
+ }
+
+ do { /* for each argv[] */
+ cur_path = man_path;
+ do { /* for each MANPATH item */
+ char *next_path = strchrnul(cur_path, ':');
+ int path_len = next_path - cur_path;
+
+ cur_sect = sec_list;
+ do { /* for each section */
+ char *next_sect = strchrnul(cur_sect, ':');
+ int sect_len = next_sect - cur_sect;
+
+ char *man_filename = xasprintf("%.*s/man%.*s/%s.%.*s" ".bz2",
+ path_len, cur_path,
+ sect_len, cur_sect,
+ *argv,
+ sect_len, cur_sect);
+ if (show_manpage(pager, man_filename)) {
+ if (!(opt & OPT_a)) {
+ goto next_arg;
+ }
+ }
+ free(man_filename);
+
+ cur_sect = next_sect;
+ while (*cur_sect == ':')
+ cur_sect++;
+ } while (*cur_sect);
+
+ cur_path = next_path;
+ while (*cur_path == ':')
+ cur_path++;
+ } while (*cur_path);
+ next_arg:
+ argv++;
+ } while (*argv);
+
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}