man2book/man2book

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#!/usr/bin/python3
import argparse
import os
# the limit is just for development to limit the number of man pages in each section. set to 0 to
# have no limit.
LIMIT = 0
MANPAGE_PATH = '/usr/share/man/'
OUTPUT_DIR = '~/code/man2book/output/'
TMP_DIR = '/tmp'
__author__ = 'Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>'
__version__ = '0.0.1'
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='man2book is a tool to create a custom book of installed man pages or a '
'selection of manpage sections and pages.',
epilog='author: ' + __author__,
prog='man2book')
# if using this feature there must be a way to set the section for each manpage since the name
# can be used in more than one section. maybe make it optional like df:1 or so. so this feature
# is not reliable at the moment.
parser.add_argument('-m', '--manpages', metavar='MANPAGES', help='limit only to a subset of '
'man pages. e.g. cd or a list '
'like cd,df,mv. this feature '
'is not reliable at the '
'moment because it should be '
'possible to set the section '
'here optionally for each '
'manpage! e.g. df:1')
parser.add_argument('-s', '--sections', metavar='SECTIONS', help='the manpage sections. e.g. 8 '
'or a list like 1,2,3')
parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version', version='%(prog)s ' + str(__version__))
return parser.parse_args()
args = parse_args()
sections = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8']
if args.sections:
args_sections = args.sections.split(',')
new_sections = []
for section in args_sections:
if section not in sections:
print('section ' + section + ' not found! aborting...')
exit(1)
new_sections.append(section)
sections = new_sections
for section in sections:
x = 1
for manpage_file in os.listdir(MANPAGE_PATH + 'man' + section + '/'):
manpage = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(manpage_file))[0]
manpage = os.path.splitext(manpage)[0]
if args.manpages:
manpages = args.manpages.split(',')
if manpage in manpages:
# this needs to be taken over by pandoc to create not only single pages but a whole
# ebook. this will require a lot of output manipulation before. removing html, head,
# body tags etc. before i need to get the title to create chapters from them and
# create and to create a toc. maybe the anchor in the toc can be a hash
os.system('/usr/bin/man -Thtml ' + manpage + ' > ' + OUTPUT_DIR + 'man' + section +
'.' + manpage + '.html')
if LIMIT > 0:
if x == LIMIT:
break
x += 1