Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net> typed:
:Well, once again I've had quite a learning experience from my little attempt to
:fix something here.. I do appreciate the suggestions though, I'd much rather do
:it correctly, then have something broken comitted.

And if one wanted to be really annoying, one would post a jazzed up version.
However, the whole exercise is dependant upon whether people want this sort of
thing, rather than having multiple ``makewhatis dirname'' scripts.
(code note: after find, there's no benefit in sorting it given the method
 of avoiding duplicate hard linked files)

#! /bin/sh
#
#       $NetBSD: makewhatis.sh,v 1.13 1998/03/21 23:46:00 tron Exp $
#
# Recent changes by Tim Rightnour 03/29/1998 to make it work on multiple
# man dirs. Slight cleanup as well.
#
# written by matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>, based on the
# original by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org> and Thorsten
# Frueauf <frueauf@ira.uka.de>.
#
# Public domain.
#

# The variables below make it slightly easier to put in local hacks to 
# getname and the sed routines.

GETNAME=/usr/libexec/getNAME
SEDFILE=/usr/share/man/makewhatis.sed
BASEMANLIST="/usr/share/man /usr/local/man /usr/pkg/man /usr/X11R6/man \
	     /usr/X11R5/man"
LIST=/tmp/makewhatislist$$
TMP=/tmp/whatis$$
trap "rm -f $LIST $TMP; exit 1" 1 2 15

if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
    TMPMANLIST=$1
else
    if [ -f /etc/man.conf ] ; then
	TMPMANLIST=`awk '/^_whatdb/ { print $2 }' /etc/man.conf`
    fi
    if [ -z "$TMPMANLIST" ] ; then
	TMPMANLIST=$BASEMANLIST
    fi
fi

for TMPMAN in $TMPMANLIST ; do
    if [ -d $TMPMAN ] ; then
        MANLIST="$MANLIST $TMPMAN/whatis.db"
    elif [ -d `dirname $TMPMAN` ] ; then
        MANLIST="$MANLIST $TMPMAN"
    fi
done

# now make the list.

for TMPMAN in $MANLIST
do
    rm -f $TMP $LIST
    TMPDIR=`dirname $TMPMAN`
    find ${DESTDIR}$TMPDIR \( -type f -o -type l \) -name '*.[0-9]*' -ls | \
        awk '{if (u[$1]) next; u[$1]++ ; print $11}' > $LIST

    egrep '\.[1-9]$' $LIST | xargs ${GETNAME} | \
        sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9]* \\-/ -/' > $TMP

    egrep '\.0$' $LIST | while read file
    do
        sed -n -f ${DESTDIR}${SEDFILE} $file;
    done >> $TMP

    egrep '\.[0].(gz|Z)$' $LIST | while read file
    do
        gzip -fdc $file | sed -n -f ${DESTDIR}${SEDFILE};
    done >> $TMP

    sort -u -o $TMP $TMP

    install -o bin -g bin -m 444 $TMP $TMPMAN
done

rm -f $LIST $TMP
exit 0

-- 
Geoff Wing   <gcw@pobox.com>            Mobile : 0412 162 441
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