Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:19:14PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote
> I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in
> /usr/share/doc.  Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but
> it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a
> browser pointing to the right thing.  So I wrote a little Perl script to
> create a top-level "index.html", organized by package and with a bit of
> rudimentary pruning.  I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a
> lot faster now.  I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and
> there.
>
> Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make
> this part of gentoo?  If so, how would one do that?
>
> Current script attached.

  Here's mine.  It uses strictly bash; no perl at all.  The setup...
  - following files sit in the ~/.docpointer/  directory
    - docpointer (executable script)
    - docpointer.css
    - header
    - footer

  - from a console execute...
    ~/.docpointer/docpointer n
    where "n" is an integer specifying the number of columns across you
    want in the output.  You *MUST* specify a number.  I use between 1
    and 3, depending on my mood.  It only takes a couple of seconds on
    an old 450 mhz PIII

  - I point browser to file:///home/waltdnes/.docpointer/docpointer.html
    and get a list of html docs.  The pathname will obviously be
    different om your system

  The files are attached...

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