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Hi All!

Is this possible?

I know of several hundreds of urls linking to similar looking hp-ux man pages, like these. In these urls only the last words separated by / are changing in numbering, so we can generate these...

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B...00/31-con.html
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B...00/34-con.html
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B...3/331-con.html

I know that all these pages follow a certain pattern in their layout. I want to make a small consolidated report of all hp-ux commands listed in these pages with only their, say descriptions, examples etc...

If I have a command which works in a loop on such urls and in each turn return me the page contents, I can filter out sections which I want...

Is this possible? Any hint is highly appreciated...

Also is there a UNIX utility which converts html to simple readable text?

Cheers!
Vishnu.

I don't know how to do exactly what you want. But isn't this stuff already in the online man pages? Manipulating them is small change.

Yes Perderabo you are right in that..

and in fact I used a small command which used filter out user, sys admin etc commands into consolidated files (which of course had much less utility than the man pages themselves!!!)

I used some thing like this to consolidate user command mans...

man `man -k ' ' | grep '(1)' | awk -F"(" { print $1 } | tr -d "\n" " "` | col -b > consoldatedman

My purpose in asking such question was part of my general wish to be able to crawl thru web pages following certain pattern in their naming...

Cheers!
Vishnu.