--- /dev/null
+#/usr/bin/env bash
+# vim: sw=4 ts=4 noet :
+
+#==================================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Nokia
+# Copyright (c) 2020 AT&T Intellectual Property.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#==================================================================================
+
+# build separate man pages as .rst files and publish to the scrapable directory if
+# there are changes. We build the .rst and if it is different than what is in the
+# scarper directory we will copy it over there. We inject a title so that the
+# RTD scripts won't object.
+
+sdir="../../../docs" # the scraper dir
+
+if [[ ! -d $sdir ]]
+then
+ echo "cannot find scraper directory: $sdir"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+mkdir -p stuff
+ls -al ../man/*.xfm|sed 's!^.*man/!!' | while read x
+do
+ if [[ $x != *".7.xfm" ]]
+ then
+ out=stuff/${x%.*}.rst
+ target=${sdir}/${out##*/}
+
+ INPUT_FILE=${x%%.*} GEN_TITLE=1 LIB=".." OUTPUT_TYPE=rst tfm ../man/$x stdout 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^ //' >$out
+ new_m5=$( md5sum $out | sed 's/ .*//' )
+ if [[ ! -f $target || $new_m5 != $( md5sum $target | sed 's/ .*//' ) ]]
+ then
+ cp $out $target
+ fi
+
+ echo "${target##*/}"
+
+ rm $out
+ fi
+done
+
+rmdir stuff