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October 21, 2015 08:06
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function encodeuri { | |
local string="${@}" | |
local strlen=${#string} | |
local encoded="" | |
for (( pos = 0; pos < strlen; pos ++ )); do | |
c=${string:$pos:1} | |
case "$c" in | |
[-_.~a-zA-Z0-9]) o="${c}" ;; | |
*) printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c" | |
esac | |
encoded+="${o}" | |
done | |
echo "${encoded}" | |
} | |
function man { | |
if [[ -d /Applications/Dash.app && \ | |
-d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Dash/DocSets/Man_Pages" ]]; then | |
/usr/bin/open dash://manpages:`encodeuri ${@}` | |
else | |
/usr/bin/man ${@} | |
fi | |
} |
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