in reply to Re: [perldoc] keyword search
in thread [perldoc] keyword search

Thanx, but grepping fulltext thru all pods wasn't really my intention...

Anyway in bash it could be done as a one-liner

# ALL OCCURENCES > grep -l 'qr//' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl5005delta.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl561delta.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl56delta.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfaq6.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfaq7.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfunc.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlglossary.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlguts.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlop.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlreapi.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlreguts.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlre.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlretut.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perltoc.pod

# JUST THE X TAGS WITH qr > grep -l 'X<qr>' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlop.pod /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perltoc.pod

# AUTOMATICALLY OPENING THE SEARCHRESULTS IN PERLDOC > for i in `grep -l 'X<qr>' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod`;do perldoc + $i;done

You can even tell the pager to search within the file for the pattern... 8)

Cheers Rolf