[Wolves] Linux man pages

[Chris Maggs]

Excellent stuff guys, thanks to all for the help. I was pretty close;
not bad for a first attempt at shell scripting even if I say so
myself!

I'll buy you all a pint in the LUG Radio Live 2008 show :)

Thanks again

Chris

PS > Is it just me or are there to many people called Chris on this list?

On 15/11/2007, Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> On 11/15/07, chris procter <chris-procter at talk21.com> wrote:
> > cmd=(grep ls ps pwd umount)
> >
> > echo "Creating text files. This may take a while!"
> >
> > for (( i = 0; i <= ${#cmd} ; i++ ))
> >
> > do
> >
> >     echo "creating ${cmd[$i]}.txt"
> >
> >     man ${cmd[$i]} > ${cmd[$i]}.txt
> >
> > done
> >
> > echo -e "Woohoo! Finished :)"
>
> Just in case I'm missing something here...
>
> What's wrong with
>
> for f in grep ls ps pwd mount; do man $f > $f.txt; done
>
> sil
>
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