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   1 #!/usr/bin/python
   2 # little man page getter for olpc (which doesn't have man installed)
   3
   4 import sys
   5 from subprocess import *
   6 from urllib import urlopen
   7
   8 url = 'http://man.linuxquestions.org/?query=%s&section=0&type=0'
   9
  10 if len(sys.argv) != 2:
  11     print "What manual page do you want?"
  12 else:
  13     text = urlopen(url % (sys.argv[1])).read()
  14     if text.count("\n"):
  15         text = Popen(["echo", text], stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE)
  16         Popen(["less"], stdin=text.stdout).wait()
  17     else:
  18         print text