05-31-2016
Let us start with a description of your environment:
- which OS are you using (and which version of it)
- which shell are you using (and, maybe, which version of it)
the answers to these questions may well influence the final solution to your problem.
Now, the general solution to your problem is the
find-command: basically it produces a list of files, which (see the
-exec-clause) then can be subjected to some command. For a (short) introduction
see here
I hope this helps.
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DWWW(1) Debian DWWW(1)
NAME
dwww - access documentation via WWW
SYNOPSIS
http://localhost/dwww/index.html
dwww
dwww program-name | package-name
DESCRIPTION
A typical Linux system has documentation in many formats (manual pages, info files, READMEs, and so on). dwww makes it possible to access
all of these via the same interface, a WWW browser. This makes it easier to use the documentation.
To use dwww, load the URL given in the SYNOPSIS. If you have a web browser installed, you can also just run the dwww command which loads
the URL. If BROWSER environment variable is set, dwww uses sensible-browser(1) to load the URL. Otherwise, dwww first tries to use
browser specified by DWWW_BROWSER or DWWW_X11_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. dwww(7)), than will use sensible-browser(1) command.
If optional argument program-name or package-name is specified, dwww will search all documentation related to given program or package.
ENVIRONMENT
BROWSER
Program used to load the above mentioned URL.
FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf
Configuration file for dwww.
SEE ALSO
dwww-find(8), dwww(7), sensible-browser(1).
AUTHOR
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.
Bugs should be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System at <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/>.
dwww is licensed via the GNU General Public License. While it has been written for Debian, porting it to other systems is strongly encour-
aged.
dwww 1.11.1 February 15th, 2009 DWWW(1)