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When i was new to Linux all i wanted was GUI versions of every CLI. I even dreamed of writing something that would turn man pages into GUIs
by hrdwdmrbl 4y ago
When i was new to Linux all i wanted was GUI versions of every CLI. I even dreamed of writing something that would turn man pages into GUIs
- dvtrn 4y agoStatic site generator for man pages? Sounds like a fun “just because” thing to do actually.
- TheDong 4y agoWe can call it groff, and invoke it via "groff -mandoc -Thtml" The output of such a program might look something like this I think: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/groff.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/groff.1.html
- paranoidrobot 4y agoThis renders the manpage as HTML - I read the original suggestion as creating a GUI for the tool itself, from manpages.
- lloeki 4y agoxman ;) https://manpages.org/xman https://manpages.org/xman
- paranoidrobot 4y agoThat's a manpages browser. Not a GUI for the tool itself. I.e turn the manpages for curl into a GUI for curl.
- lloeki 4y agooh, I completely missed that :facepalm:
- indigodaddy 4y agohttps://youtu.be/xH8rieN7aRI https://youtu.be/xH8rieN7aRI