cbodden/rfc-reader

this is a command line (linux) rfc reader

rfc-reader

This script is used to read RFC's, and search for RFC's by syntax.
It has support for BCP, FYI, IEN, STD, & RFC.

Usage

Usage: rfc-editor <name (-n)|read (-r)|search (-s)> <####> <bcp|fyi|ien|std|rfc>
       rfc-editor <latest>

Usage examples:
  rfc-editor name 3334 rfc     # displays RFC #3334 name
    ex: 3334 Policy-Based Accounting. T. Zseby, S. Zander, C. Carle. October
             2002. (Format: TXT=103014 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

  rfc-editor search <term> rfc # Displays index of matches with RFC #'s
    ex: rfc-editor search transport rfc

        0905 ISO Transport Protocol specification ISO DP 8073. ISO. April
             1984. (Format: TXT=249214 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0892) (Status:
             UNKNOWN)

        0939 Executive summary of the NRC report on transport protocols for
             Department of Defense data networks. National Research Council.
             February 1985. (Format: TXT=42345 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)

  rfc-editor read 38 fyi       # read fyi #38
  
  rfc-editor latest            # shows list of latest rfc's

Requirements

• Bash (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html)
• Less (http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/)
• Wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
• cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/)
• and a terminal emulator of some sort, either:
• Xterm (http://invisible-island.net/xterm/)
• aterm (http://aterm.sourceforge.net)
• mrxvt (http://materm.sourceforge.net/)
• rxvt (http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/)
• urxvt (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html)

Todo / Add

License and Author

Author:: Cesar Bodden (cesar@pissedoffadmins.com)

Copyright:: 2013, Pissedoffadmins.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.