deroff

remove nroff/troff formatter commands, prepare word list 

Command

SYNOPSIS

deroff [-nw] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The deroff command removes all embedded formatting commands for text formatters compatible with troff or nroff. This involves removing lines beginning with a dot (.), expanding .so and .nx requests, and removing the most common escape sequences for font and size requests, and other troff or nroff directives. deroff writes the stripped text to the standard output.

-n 

is used with the -w option to make the word list include the file name and line number where each word was found in the input.

-w 

divides the stripped text into a sequence of words, one per line.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 

Successful completion.

1 

Failure due to any of the following:

— invalid command line option
— cannot open source file
— file nesting level too deep
— insufficient memory

PORTABILITY

All UNIX systems. Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows Server 2003. Windows Vista.

AVAILABILITY

MKS Toolkit for Power Users
MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

SEE ALSO

Commands:
sort, uniq

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