DEMANDOC(1) | General Commands Manual | DEMANDOC(1) |
demandoc
— emit
only text of UNIX manuals
demandoc |
[-w ] [file ...] |
The demandoc
utility emits only the text
portions of well-formed mdoc(7) and
man(7) UNIX manual
files.
By default, demandoc
parses standard input
and outputs only text nodes, preserving line and column position. Escape
sequences are omitted from the output.
Its arguments are as follows:
-w
If a document is not well-formed, it is skipped.
The -i
, -k
,
-m
, and -p
flags are
silently discarded for calling compatibility with the historical deroff.
The demandoc
utility exits with one of the
following values:
demandoc
to exit at once, possibly in the middle
of parsing or formatting a file. The output databases are corrupt and
should be removed .The traditional usage of demandoc
is for
spell-checking manuals on BSD. This is accomplished
as follows (assuming British spelling):
$ demandoc -w file.1 | spell
-b
demandoc
replaces the historical deroff
utility for handling modern man(7) and
mdoc(7) documents.
The demandoc
utility was written by
Kristaps Dzonsons
<kristaps@bsd.lv>.
September 12, 2014 | macOS 14.6 |