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dwww-find

DWWW-FIND(8)							      Debian							      DWWW-FIND(8)

NAME

       dwww-find - find documentation related to a search argument

SYNOPSIS

       dwww-find [--program|--menu|--documentation|--docfile|--doc-base-list] [--skip=number] argument [...]

DESCRIPTION

       dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW.

       dwww-find  searches  for  a documentation related to a given program, for entries from Debian Documentation Menu, or at least for documents
       registered with doc-base.  It returns a HTML-formatted document with search results.

OPTIONS

       --program
	      Search for documentation	(man pages, info files, etc.) related to program specified by argument.

       --menu Search for entries in Debian Documentation Menu pages generated by dwww-build-menu(8).

       --documentation
	      Search in documentation files registered with doc-base.  It uses search++(1) for searching.

       --docfile
	      Search for documentation for package, which contains the file specified by the argument.	The file must be located  in  or  below  a
	      directory that has been allowed by the system administrator; see dwww(7) for more info.

       --doc-base-list
	      Show  list  of registerered doc-base files for given argument, which should be specified as format/document-id, where document-id is
	      an identificator of registered doc-base document, and format is a name of format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the document,  for
	      which the list list is to be generated.

       --skip=number
	      Works only with --documentation.	Skip number of search results.

       When no options are specified, --program is assumed.

FILES

       /etc/dwww/dwww.conf
	      Configuration file for dwww.

SEE ALSO

       dwww(7),      dwww-quickfind(8),      dwww-build-menu(8),      dwww-index++(8),	    search++(1),     Debian	doc-base     Manual	in
       /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html.

AUTHORS

       Lars Wirzenius.	Robert Luberda.
       See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.

dwww 1.11.4							January 15th, 2011						      DWWW-FIND(8)

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