Re: [Groff] Building a troff parser

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Mike Bianchi <address@hidden> wrote:
 |On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 01:00:35AM -0500, Eric Andrew Lewis wrote:
 |> In short, I'd like to make a program that does this:
 |> 
 |> $ explain "rm -rf *"
 |> rm -rf *
 |> └── rm       remove files or directories
 |>     ├── -r   remove directories and their contents recursively
 |>     ├── -f   ignore nonexistent files, never prompt
 |>     └── *    Remove (unlink) files matching this text pattern.
 |
 |Are you aware of  rm --help ?
 |
 |The --help argument is very common in commands.

Long options are not POSIX standardised, short options thus seem
to be more portable.
:-h

--steffen