woman, a unified manual printing tool. Prints the help page of a program if a manpage doesn't exist.

woman.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl
# woman
# copyright 2021 Nikolaj Lepka <[email protected]>
use v5.30;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;

GetOptions (
    help => \my $wanthelp,
);

if ($wanthelp) {
    pod2usage( -verbose => 2, -noperldoc => 1 );
} elsif (!@ARGV) {
    pod2usage( -verbose => 1);
}

my $command = shift;

my @options = (
    "man $command", 
    "$command --help | less", 
    "$command -help | less", 
    "$command -h | less", 
    "$command -? | less"
);

for my $option (@options) {
    my $rc = system $option;
    if ($rc != 0) {
        next;
    } else {
        exit;
    }
}

say "Nothing worked. Sure this program even has a help page?";

__END__

=head1 NAME

Woman, provides docs where man doesn't.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

woman [--help] <PROGNAME>

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 12

=item --help

Prints extended help message.

=item PROGNAME

The program name you wish to run. Examples include C<ls>, C<man>, C<rustup>

=back

=head1 DESCRIPTION

A simple script with the purpose of addressing some of C<man>'s shortcomings.
Not every program has an available manpage, and far too often I'm greeted with B<No manual entry for foo>.
Woman seeks to remedy this by simply piping the help page of a program into C<less> if a manpage doesn't exist.

=head1 LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2020, Nikolaj Lepka <[email protected]>

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

=head1 AUTHOR

Nikolaj Lepka - L<https://wausoft.eu>

=cut