#!/usr/bin/env perl # Generate a short man page from --help and --version output. # Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software # Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, # Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # Written by Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> # Available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/ use 5.005; use strict; use Getopt::Long; use Text::Tabs qw(expand); use POSIX qw(strftime setlocale LC_TIME); my $this_program = 'help2man'; my $this_version = '1.28'; my $version_info = <<EOT; GNU $this_program $this_version Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Brendan O'Dea <bod\@debian.org> EOT my $help_info = <<EOT; `$this_program' generates a man page out of `--help' and `--version' output. Usage: $this_program [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE -n, --name=STRING description for the NAME paragraph -s, --section=SECTION section number for manual page (1, 6, 8) -m, --manual=TEXT name of manual (User Commands, ...) -S, --source=TEXT source of program (FSF, Debian, ...) -i, --include=FILE include material from `FILE' -I, --opt-include=FILE include material from `FILE' if it exists -o, --output=FILE send output to `FILE' -p, --info-page=TEXT name of Texinfo manual -N, --no-info suppress pointer to Texinfo manual --help print this help, then exit --version print version number, then exit EXECUTABLE should accept `--help' and `--version' options although alternatives may be specified using: -h, --help-option=STRING help option string -v, --version-option=STRING version option string Report bugs to <bug-help2man\@gnu.org>. EOT my $section = 1; my $manual = ''; my $source = ''; my $help_option = '--help'; my $version_option = '--version'; my ($opt_name, @opt_include, $opt_output, $opt_info, $opt_no_info); my %opt_def = ( 'n|name=s' => \$opt_name, 's|section=s' => \$section, 'm|manual=s' => \$manual, 'S|source=s' => \$source, 'i|include=s' => sub { push @opt_include, [ pop, 1 ] }, 'I|opt-include=s' => sub { push @opt_include, [ pop, 0 ] }, 'o|output=s' => \$opt_output, 'p|info-page=s' => \$opt_info, 'N|no-info' => \$opt_no_info, 'h|help-option=s' => \$help_option, 'v|version-option=s' => \$version_option, ); # Parse options. Getopt::Long::config('bundling'); GetOptions (%opt_def, help => sub { print $help_info; exit }, version => sub { print $version_info; exit }, ) or die $help_info; die $help_info unless @ARGV == 1; my %include = (); my %append = (); my @include = (); # retain order given in include file # Process include file (if given). Format is: # # [section name] # verbatim text # # or # # /pattern/ # verbatim text # while (@opt_include) { my ($inc, $required) = @{shift @opt_include}; next unless -f $inc or $required; die "$this_program: can't open `$inc' ($!)\n" unless open INC, $inc; my $key; my $hash = \%include; while (<INC>) { # [section] if (/^\[([^]]+)\]/) { $key = uc $1; $key =~ s/^\s+//; $key =~ s/\s+$//; $hash = \%include; push @include, $key unless $include{$key}; next; } # /pattern/ if (m!^/(.*)/([ims]*)!) { my $pat = $2 ? "(?$2)$1" : $1; # Check pattern. eval { $key = qr($pat) }; if ($@) { $@ =~ s/ at .*? line \d.*//; die "$inc:$.:$@"; } $hash = \%append; next; } # Check for options before the first section--anything else is # silently ignored, allowing the first for comments and # revision info. unless ($key) { # handle options if (/^-/) { local @ARGV = split; GetOptions %opt_def; } next; } $hash->{$key} ||= ''; $hash->{$key} .= $_; } close INC; die "$this_program: no valid information found in `$inc'\n" unless $key; } # Compress trailing blank lines. for my $hash (\(%include, %append)) { for (keys %$hash) { $hash->{$_} =~ s/\n+$/\n/ } } # Turn off localisation of executable's ouput. @ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3; # Turn off localisation of date (for strftime). setlocale LC_TIME, 'C'; # Grab help and version info from executable. my ($help_text, $version_text) = map { join '', map { s/ +$//; expand $_ } `$ARGV[0] $_ 2>/dev/null` or die "$this_program: can't get `$_' info from $ARGV[0]\n" } $help_option, $version_option; my $date = strftime "%B %Y", localtime; (my $program = $ARGV[0]) =~ s!.*/!!; my $package = $program; my $version; if ($opt_output) { unlink $opt_output or die "$this_program: can't unlink $opt_output ($!)\n" if -e $opt_output; open STDOUT, ">$opt_output" or die "$this_program: can't create $opt_output ($!)\n"; } # The first line of the --version information is assumed to be in one # of the following formats: # # <version> # <program> <version> # {GNU,Free} <program> <version> # <program> ({GNU,Free} <package>) <version> # <program> - {GNU,Free} <package> <version> # # and seperated from any copyright/author details by a blank line. ($_, $version_text) = split /\n+/, $version_text, 2; if (/^(\S+) +\(((?:GNU|Free) +[^)]+)\) +(.*)/ or /^(\S+) +- *((?:GNU|Free) +\S+) +(.*)/) { $program = $1; $package = $2; $version = $3; } elsif (/^((?:GNU|Free) +)?(\S+) +(.*)/) { $program = $2; $package = $1 ? "$1$2" : $2; $version = $3; } else { $version = $_; } $program =~ s!.*/!!; # No info for `info' itself. $opt_no_info = 1 if $program eq 'info'; # --name overrides --include contents. $include{NAME} = "$program \\- $opt_name\n" if $opt_name; # Default (useless) NAME paragraph. $include{NAME} ||= "$program \\- manual page for $program $version\n"; # Man pages traditionally have the page title in caps. my $PROGRAM = uc $program; # Set default page head/footers $source ||= "$program $version"; unless ($manual) { for ($section) { if (/^(1[Mm]|8)/) { $manual = 'System Administration Utilities' } elsif (/^6/) { $manual = 'Games' } else { $manual = 'User Commands' } } } # Extract usage clause(s) [if any] for SYNOPSIS. if ($help_text =~ s/^Usage:( +(\S+))(.*)((?:\n(?: {6}\1| *or: +\S).*)*)//m) { my @syn = $2 . $3; if ($_ = $4) { s/^\n//; for (split /\n/) { s/^ *(or: +)?//; push @syn, $_ } } my $synopsis = ''; for (@syn) { $synopsis .= ".br\n" if $synopsis; s!^\S*/!!; s/^(\S+) *//; $synopsis .= ".B $1\n"; s/\s+$//; s/(([][]|\.\.+)+)/\\fR$1\\fI/g; s/^/\\fI/ unless s/^\\fR//; $_ .= '\fR'; s/(\\fI)( *)/$2$1/g; s/\\fI\\fR//g; s/^\\fR//; s/\\fI$//; s/^\./\\&./; $synopsis .= "$_\n"; } $include{SYNOPSIS} ||= $synopsis; } # Process text, initial section is DESCRIPTION. my $sect = 'DESCRIPTION'; $_ = "$help_text\n\n$version_text"; # Normalise paragraph breaks. s/^\n+//; s/\n*$/\n/; s/\n\n+/\n\n/g; # Temporarily exchange leading dots, apostrophes and backslashes for # tokens. s/^\./\x80/mg; s/^'/\x81/mg; s/\\/\x82/g; # Start a new paragraph (if required) for these. s/([^\n])\n(Report +bugs|Email +bug +reports +to|Written +by)/$1\n\n$2/g; sub convert_option; while (length) { # Convert some standard paragraph names. if (s/^(Options|Examples): *\n//) { $sect = uc $1; next; } # Copyright section if (/^Copyright +[(\xa9]/) { $sect = 'COPYRIGHT'; $include{$sect} ||= ''; $include{$sect} .= ".PP\n" if $include{$sect}; my $copy; ($copy, $_) = split /\n\n/, $_, 2; for ($copy) { # Add back newline s/\n*$/\n/; # Convert iso9959-1 copyright symbol or (c) to nroff # character. s/^Copyright +(?:\xa9|\([Cc]\))/Copyright \\(co/mg; # Insert line breaks before additional copyright messages # and the disclaimer. s/(.)\n(Copyright |This +is +free +software)/$1\n.br\n$2/g; # Join hyphenated lines. s/([A-Za-z])-\n */$1/g; } $include{$sect} .= $copy; $_ ||= ''; next; } # Catch bug report text. if (/^(Report +bugs|Email +bug +reports +to) /) { $sect = 'REPORTING BUGS'; } # Author section. elsif (/^Written +by/) { $sect = 'AUTHOR'; } # Examples, indicated by an indented leading $, % or > are # rendered in a constant width font. if (/^( +)([\$\%>] )\S/) { my $indent = $1; my $prefix = $2; my $break = '.IP'; $include{$sect} ||= ''; while (s/^$indent\Q$prefix\E(\S.*)\n*//) { $include{$sect} .= "$break\n\\f(CW$prefix$1\\fR\n"; $break = '.br'; } next; } my $matched = ''; $include{$sect} ||= ''; # Sub-sections have a trailing colon and the second line indented. if (s/^(\S.*:) *\n / /) { $matched .= $& if %append; $include{$sect} .= qq(.SS "$1"\n); } my $indent = 0; my $content = ''; # Option with description. if (s/^( {1,10}([+-]\S.*?))(?:( +(?!-))|\n( {20,}))(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length ($4 || "$1$3"); $content = ".TP\n\x83$2\n\x83$5\n"; unless ($4) { # Indent may be different on second line. $indent = length $& if /^ {20,}/; } } # Option without description. elsif (s/^ {1,10}([+-]\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $content = ".HP\n\x83$1\n"; $indent = 80; # not continued } # Indented paragraph with tag. elsif (s/^( +(\S.*?) +)(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length $1; $content = ".TP\n\x83$2\n\x83$3\n"; } # Indented paragraph. elsif (s/^( +)(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length $1; $content = ".IP\n\x83$2\n"; } # Left justified paragraph. else { s/(.*)\n//; $matched .= $& if %append; $content = ".PP\n" if $include{$sect}; $content .= "$1\n"; } # Append continuations. while (s/^ {$indent}(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $content .= "\x83$1\n" } # Move to next paragraph. s/^\n+//; for ($content) { # Leading dot and apostrophe protection. s/\x83\./\x80/g; s/\x83'/\x81/g; s/\x83//g; # Convert options. s/(^| )(-[][\w=-]+)/$1 . convert_option $2/mge; } # Check if matched paragraph contains /pat/. if (%append) { for my $pat (keys %append) { if ($matched =~ $pat) { $content .= ".PP\n" unless $append{$pat} =~ /^\./; $content .= $append{$pat}; } } } $include{$sect} .= $content; } # Refer to the real documentation. unless ($opt_no_info) { my $info_page = $opt_info || $program; $sect = 'SEE ALSO'; $include{$sect} ||= ''; $include{$sect} .= ".PP\n" if $include{$sect}; $include{$sect} .= <<EOT; The full documentation for .B $program is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the .B info and .B $program programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP .B info $info_page .PP should give you access to the complete manual. EOT } # Output header. print <<EOT; .\\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by $this_program $this_version. .TH $PROGRAM "$section" "$date" "$source" "$manual" EOT # Section ordering. my @pre = qw(NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS EXAMPLES); my @post = ('AUTHOR', 'REPORTING BUGS', 'COPYRIGHT', 'SEE ALSO'); my $filter = join '|', @pre, @post; # Output content. for (@pre, (grep ! /^($filter)$/o, @include), @post) { if ($include{$_}) { my $quote = /\W/ ? '"' : ''; print ".SH $quote$_$quote\n"; for ($include{$_}) { # Replace leading dot, apostrophe and backslash tokens. s/\x80/\\&./g; s/\x81/\\&'/g; s/\x82/\\e/g; print; } } } exit; # Convert option dashes to \- to stop nroff from hyphenating 'em, and # embolden. Option arguments get italicised. sub convert_option { local $_ = '\fB' . shift; s/-/\\-/g; unless (s/\[=(.*)\]$/\\fR[=\\fI$1\\fR]/) { s/=(.)/\\fR=\\fI$1/; s/ (.)/ \\fI$1/; $_ .= '\fR'; } $_; }