From d2cd9c033b603cb25dc4516f3511afa52dfb1ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nomnombtc Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:59:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add script to generate manpages with help2man --- contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100755 contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh diff --git a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000..7cd7d1b50 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# the autodetected version git tag at the end +# can screw up manpage output a little bit +BTCVER=$(bitcoin-cli --version | cut -d"-" -f1 | cut -d"v" -f3) + +# Create a footer file with copyright content. +# This gets autodetected fine for bitcoind if +# --version-string is not set, but has different +# outcomes for bitcoin-qt and bitcoin-cli. +echo "[COPYRIGHT]" > footer.h2m +bitcoind --version | sed -n '1!p' >> footer.h2m + +for cmd in bitcoind bitcoin-qt bitcoin-cli; do + help2man -N --version-string=${BTCVER} --include=footer.h2m -o ../../doc/man/${cmd}.1 ${cmd} +done + +rm -f footer.h2m