Sunday, December 14, 2008
man2html : Ubunutu Man pages in Firefox
9:16 AM | 
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jumalikorek
Properly formated man pages in Mozilla Firefox (or any browser) is a dream of linux users, if it has a search facility? great!!!
First you have to install man2html using Synaptic or apt
$ sudo apt-get install man2html
Then open Mozilla Firefox and do the following
First you have to install man2html using Synaptic or apt
$ sudo apt-get install man2html
Then open Mozilla Firefox and do the following
Go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks;
Open a bookmark folder then right-click and chose New Bookmark;
Name the new bookmark Man;
In the Location field paste this line:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=%s
In the Keyword field type man;
Click Add.
Now you try man ls in address bar of your browser
You can try
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=
also, before adding bookmark just cut and paste the above to your browsers address bar
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