linux/scripts/split-man.pl
Matthew Wilcox 5b229fbec8 Add scripts/split-man.pl
Instead of asking the user to copy and paste a small perl script from
the documentation, just distribute the perl script in the scripts
directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-13 14:21:52 -07:00

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
#
# Produce manpages from kernel-doc.
# See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for instructions
if ($#ARGV < 0) {
die "where do I put the results?\n";
}
mkdir $ARGV[0],0777;
$state = 0;
while (<STDIN>) {
if (/^\.TH \"[^\"]*\" 9 \"([^\"]*)\"/) {
if ($state == 1) { close OUT }
$state = 1;
$fn = "$ARGV[0]/$1.9";
print STDERR "Creating $fn\n";
open OUT, ">$fn" or die "can't open $fn: $!\n";
print OUT $_;
} elsif ($state != 0) {
print OUT $_;
}
}
close OUT;