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| author | Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-10-21 16:30:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-10-21 16:30:34 +0000 |
| commit | 8a27a63745f5a2000e243d7f2df76c57a5604be5 (patch) | |
| tree | 293bcfd60f91e74fd4b13bc4e4fa1b516c399513 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 44ca4575ea0602c037be51beb89e1a1ad34ee649 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/col/col.1 | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/col/col.1 b/usr.bin/col/col.1 index 1a6a1eb00a25..03b9c1328a09 100644 --- a/usr.bin/col/col.1 +++ b/usr.bin/col/col.1 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)col.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/29/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 10, 2015 +.Dd October 21, 2020 .Dt COL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,10 +47,6 @@ The utility filters out reverse (and half reverse) line feeds so that the output is in the correct order with only forward and half forward line feeds, and replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible. -This can be useful in processing the output of -.Xr nroff 1 -and -.Xr tbl 1 . .Pp The .Nm @@ -149,11 +145,19 @@ as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +We can use +.Nm +to filter the output of +.Xr man 1 +and remove the backspace characters ( +.Em ^H +) before searching for some text: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +man ls | col -b | grep HISTORY +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr colcrt 1 , -.Xr expand 1 , -.Xr nroff 1 , -.Xr tbl 1 +.Xr expand 1 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm |