From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H0rJD-0006KI-Ga for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:24:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBV3MJTF021609; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:22:19 GMT Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (alnrmhc12.comcast.net [206.18.177.52]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBV3KKmX027095 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:20:20 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20061231032018b1200bprcne>; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:20:18 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <9acccfe50612301603k15644cu3b2a7777ad975b30@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50612301603k15644cu3b2a7777ad975b30@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612302220.18268.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: b0a9556a-0a77-4252-bb18-ac3f1b531b86 X-Archives-Hash: e6893b4ed7fa9f55790ddfbd17a86700 On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's > wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages > because it's not indexed. > > So I started building a Perl script to create a top-level > HTML index page automatically from the .html files it > finds lying around. I started with just the contents of > /usr/share/doc. > > Before I go too much farther, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows > of an existing product (that is surely more refined than > this little starter gizmo I've got so frar) that does the > same or similar thing? > > If not, are there any other places where generally useful > HTML might be hiding? > I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document indexes... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list