svn commit: r366913 - head/usr.bin/col
Fernando Apesteguía
fernape at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 21 16:30:34 UTC 2020
Author: fernape (ports committer)
Date: Wed Oct 21 16:30:34 2020
New Revision: 366913
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366913
Log:
col(1): Add EXAMPLES section
Add a small example.
Cross reference clean up for colcrt, nroff and tbl.
Reviewed by: gbe@, bcr@
Approved by: gbe@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26864
Modified:
head/usr.bin/col/col.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/col/col.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/col/col.1 Wed Oct 21 16:04:57 2020 (r366912)
+++ head/usr.bin/col/col.1 Wed Oct 21 16:30:34 2020 (r366913)
@@ -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
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