How to run full text search on help pages offline (from Yelp / gnome-help or something other)?
I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other locations). As far I can understand it has three formats:
- HTML -
.page(dpkg -S .page | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 12 results) - DocBook -
.docbook(dpkg -S .docbook | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 21 results) - ManPage (many from
manpath=/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man)
These files are rendered by Yelp program (from yelp package) with executables yelp and gnome-help.
Notes:
- here on AskUbuntu was similar question about ScrollKeeper database (provided by
rarian-compatpackage) without answer;
there is a bug 726439 named "Search for document returns an Unknown error: 'URI xref:search=' could not be parsed" on LauchPad.net (from 2011 year) about broken(?) search in Yelp. If I press CtrlS to search
searchtermin current version of Yelp it still returns
Unknown Error
The URI ‘xref:search=searchterm’ could not be parsed.
Of course I can run the grep over all these files, but is it possible to run such search from Yelp?
search documentation offline helpfile yelp
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
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I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other locations). As far I can understand it has three formats:
- HTML -
.page(dpkg -S .page | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 12 results) - DocBook -
.docbook(dpkg -S .docbook | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 21 results) - ManPage (many from
manpath=/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man)
These files are rendered by Yelp program (from yelp package) with executables yelp and gnome-help.
Notes:
- here on AskUbuntu was similar question about ScrollKeeper database (provided by
rarian-compatpackage) without answer;
there is a bug 726439 named "Search for document returns an Unknown error: 'URI xref:search=' could not be parsed" on LauchPad.net (from 2011 year) about broken(?) search in Yelp. If I press CtrlS to search
searchtermin current version of Yelp it still returns
Unknown Error
The URI ‘xref:search=searchterm’ could not be parsed.
Of course I can run the grep over all these files, but is it possible to run such search from Yelp?
search documentation offline helpfile yelp
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
21.8k547102
1
There are also info pages and actual.htmlfiles in the docs of some packages.
– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52
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I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other locations). As far I can understand it has three formats:
- HTML -
.page(dpkg -S .page | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 12 results) - DocBook -
.docbook(dpkg -S .docbook | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 21 results) - ManPage (many from
manpath=/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man)
These files are rendered by Yelp program (from yelp package) with executables yelp and gnome-help.
Notes:
- here on AskUbuntu was similar question about ScrollKeeper database (provided by
rarian-compatpackage) without answer;
there is a bug 726439 named "Search for document returns an Unknown error: 'URI xref:search=' could not be parsed" on LauchPad.net (from 2011 year) about broken(?) search in Yelp. If I press CtrlS to search
searchtermin current version of Yelp it still returns
Unknown Error
The URI ‘xref:search=searchterm’ could not be parsed.
Of course I can run the grep over all these files, but is it possible to run such search from Yelp?
search documentation offline helpfile yelp
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
21.8k547102
I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other locations). As far I can understand it has three formats:
- HTML -
.page(dpkg -S .page | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 12 results) - DocBook -
.docbook(dpkg -S .docbook | grep -E /usr/share/help | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -lreturns 21 results) - ManPage (many from
manpath=/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man)
These files are rendered by Yelp program (from yelp package) with executables yelp and gnome-help.
Notes:
- here on AskUbuntu was similar question about ScrollKeeper database (provided by
rarian-compatpackage) without answer;
there is a bug 726439 named "Search for document returns an Unknown error: 'URI xref:search=' could not be parsed" on LauchPad.net (from 2011 year) about broken(?) search in Yelp. If I press CtrlS to search
searchtermin current version of Yelp it still returns
Unknown Error
The URI ‘xref:search=searchterm’ could not be parsed.
Of course I can run the grep over all these files, but is it possible to run such search from Yelp?
search documentation offline helpfile yelp
search documentation offline helpfile yelp
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
21.8k547102
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
21.8k547102
edited Oct 5 '18 at 13:19
N0rbert
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
N0rbertN0rbert
21.8k547102
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
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21.8k547102
asked Jul 24 '18 at 9:42
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There are also info pages and actual.htmlfiles in the docs of some packages.
– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52
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There are also info pages and actual.htmlfiles in the docs of some packages.
– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52
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There are also info pages and actual
.html files in the docs of some packages.– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52
There are also info pages and actual
.html files in the docs of some packages.– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52
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This is especially for man pages in Linux.
find -name "cp.1.gz"| xargs zcat
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
Tohid TamboliTohid Tamboli
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What about `man -k yousearch| ?
– solsTiCe
Dec 18 '18 at 7:44
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Try:
yelp man:<command>
For example:
yelp man:cp
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This is especially for man pages in Linux.
find -name "cp.1.gz"| xargs zcat
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
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What about `man -k yousearch| ?
– solsTiCe
Dec 18 '18 at 7:44
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This is especially for man pages in Linux.
find -name "cp.1.gz"| xargs zcat
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
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What about `man -k yousearch| ?
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This is especially for man pages in Linux.
find -name "cp.1.gz"| xargs zcat
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
Tohid TamboliTohid Tamboli
79946
This is especially for man pages in Linux.
find -name "cp.1.gz"| xargs zcat
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
Tohid TamboliTohid Tamboli
79946
answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
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answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
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answered Oct 5 '18 at 11:49
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What about `man -k yousearch| ?
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What about `man -k yousearch| ?
– solsTiCe
Dec 18 '18 at 7:44
What about `man -k yousearch| ?
– solsTiCe
Dec 18 '18 at 7:44
What about `man -k yousearch| ?
– solsTiCe
Dec 18 '18 at 7:44
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Try:
yelp man:<command>
For example:
yelp man:cp
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Try:
yelp man:<command>
For example:
yelp man:cp
answered 4 hours ago
Brad HornBrad Horn
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Try:
yelp man:<command>
For example:
yelp man:cp
answered 4 hours ago
Brad HornBrad Horn
1012
Try:
yelp man:<command>
For example:
yelp man:cp
answered 4 hours ago
Brad HornBrad Horn
1012
answered 4 hours ago
Brad HornBrad Horn
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There are also info pages and actual
.htmlfiles in the docs of some packages.– muru
Jul 24 '18 at 9:52