man break (in this case fetches and formats entry from ss64.com)

man break -l (use local help only, in this case it executes shell command break /?)

LlaMan serves as something like man pages in Linux. It either tries to get info from command line parameters (like --help or /?) or from ss64.com. The latter gets printed in Windows console with as much formatting as possible - and it's easily configurable!

For local help pages it simply tries to run command with following parameters: -h, --help, /? and without parameters - both as executable (exec method) and shell commands (shell_exec method). Then it assumes that the longest output is correct one. If there's page about particular command on ss64.com, it fetches the page, caches it, formats and displays it.

• PHP (tested on 7.4)

• WIndows 10 (or older with ANSICon)

1. Get the repository

2. Set path to man.php in man.bat

3. Move man.bat to any directory in your PATH enviroment variable

4. Start using!

This instruction assumes script already "installed" (points 2-3 in Installation chapter). If not, just change man to php c:\some_path\man.php.

Basic usage:

man **command** where command* is a name of command you want to see help for.

Additional parameters

Options: -s, --style[=default] changes print style

    -S, --list-styles
            list available styles

    -l, --local
            prefer local help

    -n, --nocache
            don't cache results

    -p, --purge
            purge cache for particular command

    -b, --browser
            open ss64.com result in browser, if available

    -u, --update
            check for updates

    -v, --verbose
            verbose mode

    -h, --help
            shows help screen

[to add later/for now consult man.php and style.*.php files.

[to describe laterl; for now check out emulateHeader() callback in man.php]

• max cache time

• clean code

• display time of ss64 cache

• allow loading local files, just like manpages

• remove leftover tags

• ability to ignore non zero errorcodes

• allow choice of non-longest help

• display raw HTML for ss64

• scroll up/down ability

• -i / --install to generate batch file