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  • itsnotlupus@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlraw man files?
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    1 year ago

    You can list every man page installed on your system with man -k . , or just apropos .
    But that’s a lot of random junk. If you only want “executable programs or shell commands”, only grab man pages in section 1 with a apropos -s 1 .

    You can get the path of a man page by using whereis -m pwd (replace pwd with your page name.)

    You can convert a man page to html with man2html (may require apt get man2html or whatever equivalent applies to your distro.)
    That tool adds a couple of useless lines at the beginning of each file, so we’ll want to pipe its output into a | tail +3 to get rid of them.

    Combine all of these together in a questionable incantation, and you might end up with something like this:

    mkdir -p tmp ; cd tmp
    apropos -s 1 . | cut -d' ' -f1 | while read page; do whereis -m "$page" ; done | while read id path rest; do man2html "$path" | tail +3 > "${id::-1}.html"; done
    

    List every command in section 1, extract the id only. For each one, get a file path. For each id and file path (ignore the rest), convert to html and save it as a file named $id.html.

    It might take a little while to run, but then you could run firefox . or whatever and browse the resulting mess.

    Or keep tweaking all of this until it’s just right for you.





  • More appropriate tools to detect AI generated text you mean?

    It’s not a thing. I don’t think it will ever be a thing. Certainly not reliably, and never as a 100% certainty tool.

    The punishment for a teacher deciding you cheated on a test or an assignment? I don’t know, but I imagine it sucks. Best case, you’d probably be at risk of failing the class and potentially the grade/semester. Worst case you might get expelled for being a filthy cheater. Because an unreliable tool said so and an unreliable teacher chose to believe it.

    If you’re asking what’s the answer teachers should know to defend against AI generated content, I’m afraid I don’t have one. It’s akin to giving students math homework assignments but demanding that they don’t use calculators. That could have been reasonable before calculators were a thing, but not anymore and so teachers don’t expect that to make sense and don’t put those rules on students.