Hi Alex, On 5/10/21 9:39 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > This patch makes man_lsfunc() search for the function prototypes, > instead of relying on the current manual page formatting, > which might change in the future, and break this function. > > It also simplifies the code, by reusing man_section(). > > Create a new function sed_rm_ccomments(), which is needed by > man_lsfunc(), and may also be useful in other cases. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Applied. Thanks, Michael > --- > scripts/bash_aliases | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/bash_aliases b/scripts/bash_aliases > index d9b6047d1..c50108a16 100644 > --- a/scripts/bash_aliases > +++ b/scripts/bash_aliases > @@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ > EX_OK=0; > EX_USAGE=64; > > +######################################################################## > +# C > + > +# sed_rm_ccomments() removes C comments. > +# It can't handle multiple comments in a sinlge line correctly, > +# nor mixed or embedded //... and /*...*/ comments. > +# Use as a filter (see man_lsfunc() in this file). > + > +function sed_rm_ccomments() > +{ > + sed 's%/\*.*\*/%%' \ > + |sed -E '\%/\*%,\%\*/%{\%(\*/|/\*)%!d; s%/\*.*%%; s%.*\*/%%;}' \ > + |sed 's%//.*%%'; > +} > + > ######################################################################## > # Linux kernel > > @@ -106,25 +121,13 @@ function man_lsfunc() > return ${EX_USAGE}; > fi > > - find "${@}" -type f \ > - |xargs grep -l "\.SH SYNOPSIS" \ > - |sort -V \ > - |while read -r manpage; do > - <${manpage} \ > - sed -n \ > - -e '/^\.TH/,/^\.SH/{/^\.SH/!p}' \ > - -e "/^\.SH SYNOPSIS/p" \ > - -e "/^\.SH SYNOPSIS/,/^\.SH/{/^\.SH/!p}" \ > - |sed \ > - -e '/Feature/,$d' \ > - -e '/{/,/}/d' \ > - |man -P cat -l - 2>/dev/null; > + for arg in "$@"; do > + man_section "${arg}" 'SYNOPSIS'; > done \ > - |sed -n "/^SYNOPSIS/,/^\w/p" \ > - |grep '^ \w' \ > - |grep -v ':' \ > - |sed 's/^[^(]* \**\(\w*\)(.*/\1/' \ > - |grep '^\w' \ > + |sed_rm_ccomments \ > + |pcregrep -Mn '(?s)^ [\w ]+ \**\w+\([\w\s(,)[\]*]+?(...)?\s*\); *$' \ > + |grep '^[0-9]' \ > + |sed -E 's/^[^(]+ \**(\w+)\(.*/\1/' \ > |uniq; > } > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/