DWWW-FIND(8)

💖 DWWW-FIND(8) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the dwww-find page from the Debian manual — section 8, system admin commands, we love that for her 👑

✨ NAME ✨

dwww-find — find documentation related to a search argument 🔍

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dwww-find [--package|--menu|--documentation|--docfile|--doc-base-list]
[--skip=number] argument [...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which is literally the whole vibe that gives you access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. yes bestie, docs, on the web, iconic behavior 💅

and what does dwww-find actually do? it searches for documentation related to a given program, or for entries from the Debian Documentation Menu, or at minimum for documents registered with doc-base. and then — the moment we've all been waiting for — it returns a HTML-formatted document with the search results. she ate. periodt ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --package argument — search for documentation (man pages, info files, etc.) related to argument, which can be a name of a package or a program that's installed on the system. the argument gets passed over to dwww-quickfind(8) to pull a list of names of packages related to it 🫶
• --menu argument — search for entries in the Debian Documentation Menu pages, which are generated by dwww-build-menu(8) 🍓
• --documentation argument — search in documentation files registered with doc-base. it uses search++(1) to do the searching, no cap 🔥
• --docfile argument — search for documentation for the package that contains the file specified by the argument. heads up bestie: that file must be located in or below a directory that's been allowed by the system administrator — go check dwww(7) for more info 👀
• --doc-base-list argument — show a list of the registered doc-base files for the given argument, which should be specified as format/document-id, where document-id is an identificator of a registered doc-base document, and format is a name of a format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the document, for which the list is to be generated 💜
• --skip=number — works only with --documentation. it skips number of search results. love a girl who knows how to scroll past the noise 🧚

and if you pass literally no options at all? --package is assumed. she just defaults to it. main character energy 👑

🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/dwww/dwww.conf — the configuration file for dwww. that's the one, that's the file ✨

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

dwww(7), dwww-quickfind(8), dwww-build-menu(8), dwww-index++(8), search++(1), and the Debian doc-base Manual, which lives at /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html 📚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Lars Wirzenius. Robert Luberda.

see dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff — that's where the legal girlies hang out 🫶

💌 and that's the whole page bestie!! this was dwww version 1.14, dated December 21th, 2020. slay, go find your docs, i'm obsessed with you, bye 💖✨🎀