#! /usr/bin/perl -w # # Andres Soolo writes: # "Also, I'd like to contribute this non-interactive tool to look up # VERA entries:" use strict; # Global parameters use vars qw/$verainfo/; $verainfo = '/usr/share/info/vera.info.gz'; # End of global parameters # All items in %acronym are wanted; those with empty string as their # values will be reported as unknown. my %acronym = map {uc, ''} @ARGV; delete $acronym{''}; # no such # Check whether user asked for --help if (not %acronym or defined $acronym{'--HELP'}) { print "Usage: vera acronym ...\n"; exit; } # The MNP5 -> MNP translation. Note that MNP is only weakly wanted. # See 'Acronyms pointing to versions'. s/\d+$// and $acronym{$_} = $_ for keys %acronym; open VERA, "zcat $verainfo |" or die "Trouble opening $verainfo: $!"; print "\n"; while (%acronym and $_ = ) { chomp; last if $_ eq 'Examples:'; # No unnecessary duplicates if (defined $acronym{$_}) { $acronym{$_} = $_; # Not unknown anymore print "$_\n"; while ($_ ne "\n") { $_ = ; print; } } } close VERA; delete $acronym{$_} for values %acronym; # Delete weakly wanted ones print "Unknown acronyms: ", join (', ', sort keys %acronym), "\n\n" if %acronym;