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`man` replacement for git bash on windows
#!/bin/sh
# man.sh - `man` replacement for git bash on windows
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "No command specified to get man page for"
exit 1
fi
url="http://man.he.net/?section=all&topic="
# The extra `+` at the end of the querystring doesn't hurt
for arg in $@ ; do
url=$url$arg"+"
done
curl -s $url | sed -n '/<PRE>/,/<\/PRE>/p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_);' | less
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