Erlang Documentation Shell Command

Posted by jake | Filed under Programming Ducks

I spend a lot of time looking things up in the man pages on erlang.org. Here’s how to setup a nice shortcut if you’re a mac user:


$> echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nopen http://erlang.org/doc/man/$1.html\n' > erld
$> chmod +x erld
$> sudo mv erld /usr/local/bin/

Now you can do:

$> erld lists

This runs “open http://erlang.org/doc/man/lists.html”

Enjoy!

Permalink | Comments (2) | Jan 14, 2009

2 Responses to “Erlang Documentation Shell Command”

  1. etnt Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    why not use: erl -man MODULE

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