#!/bin/sh set -eu die() { echo "$@" >&2 exit 1 } script=$0 path=${script%/*} prefix=${path%/bin} exman="${prefix}/share/exman" [ -d "${exman}" ] || exman=$prefix system=${1:-} [ -n "${system}" ] || die 'What system do you want?' shift export MANPATH="${exman}/${system}" [ -d "${MANPATH}" ] || die "No manuals for ${system}" export MANSECT for sect in "${MANPATH}"/man*/; do sect=${sect%/} sect=${sect##*/man} MANSECT="${MANSECT:-}${MANSECT:+:}${sect}" done # macOS man(1) refuses to search in directories such as "man3p", so do it # manually here unless there are other flags passed. hack() { case "${1:-}" in (-*) exec man "$@";; ([0-9]*) MANSECT=$1; shift;; esac [ $# -gt 0 ] || die 'What manual page do you want?' for page in "$@"; do found=0 IFS=: for sect in $MANSECT; do path="${MANPATH}/man${sect}/${page}" for ext in ".${sect}" ".${sect}.gz"; do [ -f "${path}${ext}" ] || continue man "${path}${ext}" found=1 break done [ $found -eq 0 ] || break done [ $found -ne 0 ] || die "No manual entry for ${page}" done } if [ "$(uname)" = 'Darwin' ]; then hack "$@" else exec man "$@" fi