#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Generate a short man page from --help and --version output. # Copyright (C) 1997-2005, 2009-2011, 2013, 2015-2023 Free Software Foundation, # Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, # Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # Written by Brendan O'Dea # Available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/ use 5.008; use strict; use Getopt::Long; use Text::Tabs qw(expand); use POSIX qw(strftime setlocale LC_ALL); my $this_program = 'help2man'; my $this_version = '1.40.4'; sub _ { $_[0] } sub configure_locale { my $locale = shift; die "$this_program: no locale support (Locale::gettext required)\n" unless $locale eq 'C'; } sub dec { $_[0] } sub enc { $_[0] } sub enc_user { $_[0] } sub kark { die +(sprintf shift, @_), "\n" } sub N_ { $_[0] } my $version_info = enc_user sprintf _(<<'EOT'), $this_program, $this_version; GNU %s %s Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Brendan O'Dea EOT my $help_info = enc_user sprintf _(<<'EOT'), $this_program, $this_program; '%s' generates a man page out of '--help' and '--version' output. Usage: %s [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE -n, --name=STRING description for the NAME paragraph -s, --section=SECTION section number for manual page (1, 6, 8) -m, --manual=TEXT name of manual (User Commands, ...) -S, --source=TEXT source of program (FSF, Debian, ...) -L, --locale=STRING select locale (default "C") -i, --include=FILE include material from 'FILE' -I, --opt-include=FILE include material from 'FILE' if it exists -o, --output=FILE send output to 'FILE' -p, --info-page=TEXT name of Texinfo manual -N, --no-info suppress pointer to Texinfo manual -l, --libtool exclude the 'lt-' from the program name --help print this help, then exit --version print version number, then exit EXECUTABLE should accept '--help' and '--version' options and produce output on stdout although alternatives may be specified using: -h, --help-option=STRING help option string -v, --version-option=STRING version option string --version-string=STRING version string --no-discard-stderr include stderr when parsing option output Report bugs to . EOT my $section = 1; my $manual = ''; my $source = ''; my $help_option = '--help'; my $version_option = '--version'; my $discard_stderr = 1; my ($opt_name, @opt_include, $opt_output, $opt_info, $opt_no_info, $opt_libtool, $version_text); my %opt_def = ( 'n|name=s' => \$opt_name, 's|section=s' => \$section, 'm|manual=s' => \$manual, 'S|source=s' => \$source, 'L|locale=s' => sub { configure_locale pop }, 'i|include=s' => sub { push @opt_include, [ pop, 1 ] }, 'I|opt-include=s' => sub { push @opt_include, [ pop, 0 ] }, 'o|output=s' => \$opt_output, 'p|info-page=s' => \$opt_info, 'N|no-info' => \$opt_no_info, 'l|libtool' => \$opt_libtool, 'help' => sub { print $help_info; exit }, 'version' => sub { print $version_info; exit }, 'h|help-option=s' => \$help_option, 'v|version-option=s' => \$version_option, 'version-string=s' => \$version_text, 'discard-stderr!' => \$discard_stderr, ); # Parse options. Getopt::Long::config('bundling'); die $help_info unless GetOptions %opt_def and @ARGV == 1; my %include = (); my %append = (); my @include = (); # retain order given in include file # Process include file (if given). Format is: # # [section name] # verbatim text # # or # # /pattern/ # verbatim text # while (@opt_include) { my ($inc, $required) = @{shift @opt_include}; next unless -f $inc or $required; kark N_("%s: can't open '%s' (%s)"), $this_program, $inc, $! unless open INC, $inc; my $key; my $hash = \%include; while () { # Convert input to internal Perl format, so that multibyte # sequences are treated as single characters. $_ = dec $_; # [section] if (/^\[([^]]+)\]\s*$/) { $key = uc $1; $key =~ s/^\s+//; $key =~ s/\s+$//; $hash = \%include; push @include, $key unless $include{$key}; next; } # /pattern/ if (m!^/(.*)/([ims]*)\s*$!) { my $pat = $2 ? "(?$2)$1" : $1; # Check pattern. eval { $key = qr($pat) }; if ($@) { $@ =~ s/ at .*? line \d.*//; die "$inc:$.:$@"; } $hash = \%append; next; } # Check for options before the first section--anything else is # silently ignored, allowing the first for comments and # revision info. unless ($key) { # handle options if (/^-/) { local @ARGV = split; GetOptions %opt_def; } next; } $hash->{$key} ||= ''; $hash->{$key} .= $_; } close INC; kark N_("%s: no valid information found in '%s'"), $this_program, $inc unless $key; } # Compress trailing blank lines. for my $hash (\(%include, %append)) { for (keys %$hash) { $hash->{$_} =~ s/\n+$/\n/ } } sub get_option_value; # Grab help and version info from executable. my $help_text = get_option_value $ARGV[0], $help_option; $version_text ||= get_option_value $ARGV[0], $version_option; # Translators: the following message is a strftime(3) format string, which in # the English version expands to the month as a word and the full year. It # is used on the footer of the generated manual pages. If in doubt, you may # just use %x as the value (which should be the full locale-specific date). my $date = enc strftime _("%B %Y"), localtime; (my $program = $ARGV[0]) =~ s!.*/!!; my $package = $program; my $version; if ($opt_output) { unlink $opt_output or kark N_("%s: can't unlink %s (%s)"), $this_program, $opt_output, $! if -e $opt_output; open STDOUT, ">$opt_output" or kark N_("%s: can't create %s (%s)"), $this_program, $opt_output, $!; } # The first line of the --version information is assumed to be in one # of the following formats: # # # # {GNU,Free} # ({GNU,Free} ) # - {GNU,Free} # # and separated from any copyright/author details by a blank line. ($_, $version_text) = ((split /\n+/, $version_text, 2), ''); if (/^(\S+) +\(((?:GNU|Free) +[^)]+)\) +(.*)/ or /^(\S+) +- *((?:GNU|Free) +\S+) +(.*)/) { $program = $1; $package = $2; $version = $3; } elsif (/^((?:GNU|Free) +)?(\S+) +(.*)/) { $program = $2; $package = $1 ? "$1$2" : $2; $version = $3; } else { $version = $_; } $program =~ s!.*/!!; # No info for 'info' itself. $opt_no_info = 1 if $program eq 'info'; # Translators: "NAME", "SYNOPSIS" and other one or two word strings in all # upper case are manual page section headings. The man(1) manual page in your # language, if available should provide the conventional translations. for ($include{_('NAME')}) { if ($opt_name) # --name overrides --include contents. { $_ = "$program \\- $opt_name\n"; } elsif ($_) # Use first name given as $program { $program = $1 if /^([^\s,]+)(?:,?\s*[^\s,\\-]+)*\s+\\?-/; } else # Set a default (useless) NAME paragraph. { $_ = sprintf _("%s \\- manual page for %s %s") . "\n", $program, $program, $version; } } # Man pages traditionally have the page title in caps. my $PROGRAM = uc $program; # Set default page head/footers $source ||= "$program $version"; unless ($manual) { for ($section) { if (/^(1[Mm]|8)/) { $manual = enc _('System Administration Utilities') } elsif (/^6/) { $manual = enc _('Games') } else { $manual = enc _('User Commands') } } } # Extract usage clause(s) [if any] for SYNOPSIS. # Translators: "Usage" and "or" here are patterns (regular expressions) which # are used to match the usage synopsis in program output. An example from cp # (GNU coreutils) which contains both strings: # Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST # or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY # or: cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE... my $PAT_USAGE = _('Usage'); my $PAT_USAGE_CONT = _('or'); if ($help_text =~ s/^($PAT_USAGE):( +(\S+))(.*)((?:\n(?: {6}\1| *($PAT_USAGE_CONT): +\S).*)*)//om) { my @syn = $3 . $4; if ($_ = $5) { s/^\n//; for (split /\n/) { s/^ *(($PAT_USAGE_CONT): +)?//o; push @syn, $_ } } my $synopsis = ''; for (@syn) { $synopsis .= ".br\n" if $synopsis; s!^\S*/!!; s/^lt-// if $opt_libtool; s/^(\S+) *//; $synopsis .= ".B $1\n"; s/\s+$//; s/(([][]|\.\.+)+)/\\fR$1\\fI/g; s/^/\\fI/ unless s/^\\fR//; $_ .= '\fR'; s/(\\fI)( *)/$2$1/g; s/\\fI\\fR//g; s/^\\fR//; s/\\fI$//; s/^\./\\&./; $synopsis .= "$_\n"; } $include{_('SYNOPSIS')} ||= $synopsis; } # Process text, initial section is DESCRIPTION. my $sect = _('DESCRIPTION'); $_ = "$help_text\n\n$version_text"; # Normalise paragraph breaks. s/^\n+//; s/\n*$/\n/; s/\n\n+/\n\n/g; # Join hyphenated lines. s/([A-Za-z])-\n *([A-Za-z])/$1$2/g; # Temporarily exchange leading dots, apostrophes and backslashes for # tokens. s/^\./\x80/mg; s/^'/\x81/mg; s/\\/\x82/g; # Translators: patterns are used to match common program output. In the source # these strings are all of the form of "my $PAT_something = _('...');" and are # regular expressions. If there is more than one commonly used string, you # may separate alternatives with "|". Spaces in these expressions are written # as " +" to indicate that more than one space may be matched. The string # "(?:[\\w-]+ +)?" in the bug reporting pattern is used to indicate an # optional word, so that either "Report bugs" or "Report _program_ bugs" will # be matched. my $PAT_BUGS = _('Report +(?:[\w-]+ +)?bugs|Email +bug +reports +to'); my $PAT_AUTHOR = _('Written +by'); my $PAT_OPTIONS = _('Options'); my $PAT_ENVIRONMENT = _('Environment'); my $PAT_FILES = _('Files'); my $PAT_EXAMPLES = _('Examples'); my $PAT_FREE_SOFTWARE = _('This +is +free +software'); # Start a new paragraph (if required) for these. s/([^\n])\n($PAT_BUGS|$PAT_AUTHOR) /$1\n\n$2 /og; # Convert iso-8859-1 copyright symbol or (c) to nroff # character. s/^Copyright +(?:\xa9|\([Cc]\))/Copyright \\(co/mg; sub convert_option; while (length) { # Convert some standard paragraph names. if (s/^($PAT_OPTIONS): *\n//o) { $sect = _('OPTIONS'); next; } if (s/^($PAT_ENVIRONMENT): *\n//o) { $sect = _('ENVIRONMENT'); next; } if (s/^($PAT_FILES): *\n//o) { $sect = _('FILES'); next; } elsif (s/^($PAT_EXAMPLES): *\n//o) { $sect = _('EXAMPLES'); next; } # Copyright section if (/^Copyright /) { $sect = _('COPYRIGHT'); } # Bug reporting section. elsif (/^($PAT_BUGS) /o) { $sect = _('REPORTING BUGS'); } # Author section. elsif (/^($PAT_AUTHOR)/o) { $sect = _('AUTHOR'); } # Examples, indicated by an indented leading $, % or > are # rendered in a constant width font. if (/^( +)([\$\%>] )\S/) { my $indent = $1; my $prefix = $2; my $break = '.IP'; $include{$sect} ||= ''; while (s/^$indent\Q$prefix\E(\S.*)\n*//) { $include{$sect} .= "$break\n\\f(CW$prefix$1\\fR\n"; $break = '.br'; } next; } my $matched = ''; $include{$sect} ||= ''; # Sub-sections have a trailing colon and the second line indented. if (s/^(\S.*:) *\n / /) { $matched .= $& if %append; $include{$sect} .= qq(.SS "$1"\n); } my $indent = 0; my $content = ''; # Option with description. if (s/^( {1,10}([+-]\S.*?))(?:( +(?!-))|\n( {20,}))(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length ($4 || "$1$3"); $content = ".TP\n\x84$2\n\x84$5\n"; unless ($4) { # Indent may be different on second line. $indent = length $& if /^ {20,}/; } } # Option without description. elsif (s/^ {1,10}([+-]\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $content = ".HP\n\x84$1\n"; $indent = 80; # not continued } # Indented paragraph with tag. elsif (s/^( +(\S.*?) +)(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length $1; $content = ".TP\n\x84$2\n\x84$3\n"; } # Indented paragraph. elsif (s/^( +)(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $indent = length $1; $content = ".IP\n\x84$2\n"; } # Left justified paragraph. else { s/(.*)\n//; $matched .= $& if %append; $content = ".PP\n" if $include{$sect}; $content .= "$1\n"; } # Append continuations. while ($indent ? s/^ {$indent}(\S.*)\n// : s/^(\S.*)\n//) { $matched .= $& if %append; $content .= "\x84$1\n"; } # Move to next paragraph. s/^\n+//; for ($content) { # Leading dot and apostrophe protection. s/\x84\./\x80/g; s/\x84'/\x81/g; s/\x84//g; # Convert options. s/(^| |\()(-[][\w=-]+)/$1 . convert_option $2/mge; # Escape remaining hyphens s/-/\x83/g; if ($sect eq 'COPYRIGHT') { # Insert line breaks before additional copyright messages # and the disclaimer. s/\n(Copyright |$PAT_FREE_SOFTWARE)/\n.br\n$1/og; } elsif ($sect eq 'REPORTING BUGS') { # Handle multi-line bug reporting sections of the form: # # Report bugs to # GNU home page: # ... s/\n([[:upper:]])/\n.br\n$1/g; } } # Check if matched paragraph contains /pat/. if (%append) { for my $pat (keys %append) { if ($matched =~ $pat) { $content .= ".PP\n" unless $append{$pat} =~ /^\./; $content .= $append{$pat}; } } } $include{$sect} .= $content; } # Refer to the real documentation. unless ($opt_no_info) { my $info_page = $opt_info || $program; $sect = _('SEE ALSO'); $include{$sect} ||= ''; $include{$sect} .= ".PP\n" if $include{$sect}; $include{$sect} .= sprintf _(<<'EOT'), $program, $program, $info_page; The full documentation for .B %s is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the .B info and .B %s programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP .B info %s .PP should give you access to the complete manual. EOT } # Output header. print <$stderr`; unless ($value) { my $err = N_("%s: can't get '%s' info from %s%s"); my $extra = $discard_stderr ? "\n" . N_("Try '--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr") : ''; kark $err, $this_program, $opt, $prog, $extra; } return $value; } # Convert option dashes to \- to stop nroff from hyphenating 'em, and # embolden. Option arguments get italicised. sub convert_option { local $_ = '\fB' . shift; s/-/\x83/g; unless (s/\[=(.*)\]$/\\fR[=\\fI$1\\fR]/) { s/=(.)/\\fR=\\fI$1/; s/ (.)/ \\fI$1/; $_ .= '\fR'; } $_; }