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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> | 2014-10-20 20:41:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> | 2014-10-20 20:41:41 -0400 |
| commit | 72197f89d47444e3c62e1aa0df8bd7059c29104d (patch) | |
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col: import from plan 9, by popular demand
TBR=rsc
https://codereview.appspot.com/158240043
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diff --git a/man/man1/col.1 b/man/man1/col.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d9513cf --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/col.1 @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.TH COL 1 +.SH NAME +col \- column alignment +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B col +[ +.B -bfx +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Col +overlays lines to expunge reverse line feeds +(ESC-7) +and half line feeds (ESC-9 and ESC-8) +as produced by +.I nroff +for .2C in +.IR ms (6) +or +.IR man (6) +and for +.IR tbl (1). +.I Col +is a pure filter. +It normally emits only full line feeds; +option +.B -f +(fine) allows half line feeds too. +Option +.B -b +removes backspaces, printing just one of each pile of overstruck +characters. +.I Col +normally converts white space to tabs; +option +.B -x +overrides this feature. +Other escaped characters and non-printing characters are ignored. +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.L +tbl file | nroff -ms | col | p +Format some tables for printing on typewriters; +use +.I col +to remove reverse line feeds, and +paginate the output. +.SH SOURCE +.B \*9/src/cmd/col.c +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR pr (1) +.SH BUGS +.I Col +can't back up more than 128 lines or +handle more than 800 characters per line, +and understands +.L VT +(013) as reverse line feed. |