12-18-2008
Creating a Man page for a command
Hi,
I would like to develop a man page as the one we usually get when we execute man <command name>. This man page will be for a samll utility that i have written.
If this is not possible then what are the available possibilites for creating such help.
thanks in advance.
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fvwm-perllib
fvwm-perllib(1) Fvwm Utilities fvwm-perllib(1)
NAME
fvwm-perllib - shows the documentation of the Fvwm Perl library
SYNOPSIS
fvwm-perllib [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v|-V ] [ man [ Perl::Class ] ] [ cat [ Perl::Class ] ] [ raw [ Perl::Class ] ] [ dir ]
DESCRIPTION
Starting from fvwm-2.5.x versions there is a built-in support for creating fvwm modules in Perl. This fvwm-perllib utility provides help
services for the fvwm Perl library.
OPTIONS
--help
show the help and exit
--version
show the version and exit
--man or man [ Perl::Class ]
show manual page just like man(1)
--cat or cat [ Perl::Class ]
show manual page in plain text
--raw or raw [ Perl::Class ]
generate output in man format (not human readable)
--dir or dir
print perllib directory without a trailing end of line
USAGE
Use this in the fvwm modules written in Perl:
use lib `fvwm-perllib dir`;
Introduction to the Fvwm Perl library:
% fvwm-perllib man
Manual page for the "FVWM::Module" class:
% fvwm-perllib man FVWM::Module
Standard options:
% fvwm-perllib --help
% fvwm-perllib --version
AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>.
COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details.
BUGS
No known bugs.
Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org.
perl v5.8.0 2003-03-11 fvwm-perllib(1)