SOELIM(1) General Commands Manual SOELIM(1)

soeliminterpret .so requests in manpages

soelim [-Crtv] [-I dir] [files ...]

soelim reads files lines by lines.

If a line starts by: “.so anotherfile” it replace the line by processing “anotherfile”. Otherwise the line is printed to stdout.

Recognise when not followed by a space character.
Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim (does nothing).
Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim (does nothing).
Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim (does nothing).
dir
This option specify directories where soelim searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in “.so” directive.) This options may be specified multiple times. The directories will be searched in the order specified.

The files are always searched first in the current directory.

A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without performing a search.

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This version of the soelim utility was written by Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>.

July 4, 2017 macOS 15.2