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Anyone know of a reverse command script or package to parse args for flags, expand them, and condense a man or help page(s) to just the relevant flags? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by j4k3 to c/[email protected]

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I have been working on my scripts for user/group permissions today. This idea has been on my back burner for awhile. I'm sure others have done this before. I just haven't encountered them yet.

I was thinking of just trying to find the flags where they start a line and put everything in a string array until the next line that starts with a flag. Then I would just call the script with the command, a loop would match the flags and print the matches.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://explainshell.com/

[–] inspxtr 2 points 1 year ago

omg that is lovely. Kinda like https://regex101.com/ for regular expressions.

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