NAME
sman - Perl tool for searching man pagesSYNOPSIS
% sman boot disk
# searches for man pages about 'boot disk'
% sman -m 10 -f -r linux kernel
# show first 10 hits about the linux kernel
# with the manpage's Rank and Filename
% sman '(linux and kernel and module) or (eepro100 and ipchains)'
# a more complex query
% sman swishtitle=linux and desc=kernel
# where title contains 'linux' and description contains 'kernel'DESCRIPTION
Sman is the Searcher for Man pages. It depends on an index which is built by sman-update and by default resides in /var/lib/sman/sman.index.
Both sman and sman-update search for the first configuration file named sman.conf in /etc, /usr/local/etc/, $HOME, or the directory with sman. If no sman.conf file is found (or specified through the --config option), then the default configuration in /usr/local/etc/sman-defaults.conf will be used.
NOTE: In all cases command line options take precendence over directives read from configuration files.
AUTHOR
Josh Rabinowitz
SEE ALSO
the output of 'sman --help', sman, sman-update, sman.conf, SWISH-RUN, and the unrelated but similar "man -k", apropos and whatis