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
