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From: rrg@fibercom.COM (Rhonda Gaines)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sh script question
Message-ID: <16387@fibercom.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 13:38:11 GMT
Reply-To: rrg@fibercom.COM (Rhonda Gaines)
Organization: FiberCom Inc., Roanoke, Virginia
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I am trying to edit the following script to check if a man page has been
compressed and if so to pipe it through zcat first and then eroff it.
The problem is that sh is not recognizing the *.Z as a wildcard.  Any ideas?
I'm pretty new at this so any help will be appreciated.

 -rhonda


#! /bin/sh

#
#	Usage: lpman <command> [section]
#
#	Print hardcopy of online manual pages for <command> in [section].
#	If section is not given, print all instances of <command> found.
#	If <command> is a string enclosed with double-quotes, any wildcard
#	characters will be expanded as the search for man pages is made
#	(e.g. 'lpman "init*"' will print all instances of man pages starting
#	with the string "init").
#
#	$1 = manual entry
#	$2 = section number

FILES=`find /usr/man/man*$2* -name "$1.*" -print`
if test "$FILES" = "" ; then
	echo -n "No manual entry for $1"
	if test "$2" = "" ; then
		:
	else
		echo -n " in section ($2)"
	fi
	echo
else
	if test "$FILES" = "*.Z" ; then
		echo -n "$1 is compressed, piping output through zcat"
		/usr/ucb/zcat $FILES|/usr/local/bin/eroff -man $FILES
	else
		/usr/local/bin/eroff -man $FILES
		echo -n "Manual page for $1"
	fi
	if test "$2" = "" ; then
		:
	else
		echo -n " ($2)"
	fi
	echo " sent to LaserWriter"
fi