#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Generate a short man page from --help and --version output. # Copyright © 1997, 98 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, # Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # Written by Brendan O'Dea use 5.004; use strict; use Getopt::Long; use POSIX qw(strftime setlocale LC_TIME); my $this_program = 'help2man'; my $this_version = '1.006'; my $version_info = < EOT my $help_info = < \$opt_name, 'include=s' => \$include, 'opt-include=s' => \$opt_include, 'output=s' => \$opt_output, 'no-info' => \$opt_no_info, help => sub { print $help_info; exit }, version => sub { print $version_info; exit }, ) or die $help_info; die $help_info unless @ARGV == 1; my %include = (); my @include = (); # to retain order # Process include file (if given). Format is: # # [section name] # verbatim text if ($include or $opt_include) { if (open INC, $include || $opt_include) { my $sect; while () { if (/^\[([^]]+)\]/) { $sect = uc $1; $sect =~ s/^\s+//; $sect =~ s/\s+$//; next; } # Silently ignore anything before the first # section--allows for comments and revision info. next unless $sect; push @include, $sect unless $include{$sect}; $include{$sect} ||= ''; $include{$sect} .= $_; } close INC; die "$this_program: no valid information found in `$include'\n" unless %include; # Compress trailing blank lines. for (keys %include) { $include{$_} =~ s/\n+$//; $include{$_} .= "\n" unless /^NAME$/; } } else { die "$this_program: can't open `$include' ($!)\n" if $include; } } # Turn off localisation of executable's ouput. @ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3; # Turn off localisation of date (for strftime) setlocale LC_TIME, 'C'; # Grab help and version paragraphs from executable my @help = split /\n\n+/, `$ARGV[0] --help 2>/dev/null` or die "$this_program: can't get `--help' info from $ARGV[0]\n"; my @version = split /\n\n+/, `$ARGV[0] --version 2>/dev/null` or die "$this_program: can't get `--version' info from $ARGV[0]\n"; my $date = strftime "%B %Y", localtime; my $program = $ARGV[0]; $program =~ s!.*/!!; my $package = $program; my $version; if ($opt_output) { unlink $opt_output or die "$this_program: can't unlink $opt_output ($!)\n" if -e $opt_output; open STDOUT, ">$opt_output" or die "$this_program: can't create $opt_output ($!)\n"; } # The first line of the --version information is assumed to be in one # of the following formats: # # # # GNU # (GNU ) # - GNU # # and seperated from any copyright/author details by a blank line. $_ = shift @version; if (/^(\S+)\s+\((GNU\s+[^)]+)\)\s+(.*)/ or /^(\S+)\s+-\s*(GNU\s+\S+)\s+(.*)/) { $program = $1; $package = $2; $version = $3; } elsif (/^(GNU\s+)?(\S+)\s+(.*)/) { $program = $2; $package = $1 ? "$1$2" : $2; $version = $3; } else { $version = $_; } $program =~ s!.*/!!; # no info for `info' itself $opt_no_info = 1 if $program eq 'info'; # --name overrides --include contents $include{NAME} = "$program \\- $opt_name" if $opt_name; # Default (useless) NAME paragraph $include{NAME} ||= "$program \\- manual page for $program $version"; # Man pages traditionally have the page title in caps. my $PROGRAM = uc $program; # Header. print <