/etc/dwww/dwww.conf
Configuration file for dwww.
dwww-find8
Find documentation related to a search argument
Usage
dwww-find [{--package | --menu | --documentation | --docfile | --doc-base-list}]
[--skip=number]
argument
[]
Overview
dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW.
dwww-find searches for a documentation related to a given program, for entries from Debian Documentation Menu, or at least for documents registered with doc-base. It returns a HTML-formatted document with search results.
Options
--packageargument-
Search for documentation (man pages, info files, etc.) related to argument, which can be a name of package or program that is installed in the system. The argument is passed to dwww-quickfind(8) to retrieve a list of names of packages related to it.
--menuargument-
Search for entries in Debian Documentation Menu pages generated by dwww-build-menu(8).
--documentationargument-
Search in documentation files registered with doc-base. It uses search++(1) for searching.
--docfileargument-
Search for documentation for package, which contains the file specified by the argument. The file must be located in or below a directory that has been allowed by the system administrator; see dwww(7) for more info.
--doc-base-listargument-
Show list of registerered doc-base files for given argument, which should be specified as format/document-id, where document-id is an identificator of registered doc-base document, and format is a name of format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the document, for which the list list is to be generated.
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--skip=number -
Works only with
--documentation. Skip number of search results.
When no options are specified, --package is assumed.
Files
Releases
15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 7 times.
--skip since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).
--doc-base-list until Debian 10 (Buster);
--docfile until Debian 10 (Buster);
--documentation until Debian 10 (Buster);
--menu until Debian 10 (Buster);
--program until Debian 10 (Buster).