gnu/usr.bin/man/catman/catman

#!/bin/sh
# usage: sh catman
# put the section numbers here:
SECTIONS="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8"
MANDIR=/usr/share/man

formatman()
{
        echo "  "$1 "->" $*
        (cd cat$section; rm -f $*)
        nroff -man < man$section/$1 > cat$section/$1
        catfile=$1; shift
        while [ $# -gt 0 ]
        do
                ln cat$section/$catfile cat$section/$1
                shift
        done
}

cd $MANDIR
for section in $SECTIONS
do
  echo formatting section $section ...

  IFS=" "
  allfiles=`ls -i1 man$section | sort | awk '{if (inode ~ $1) printf "/" $2;
                 else printf " " $2; inode = $1 } END {printf "\n"}'`
  for files in $allfiles
  do
    IFS="/"
    tfiles=`echo $files`
    IFS=" "
    formatman $tfiles
  done
done
exit 0