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author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-05-28 12:56:15 +1200 |
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committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-05-28 12:59:15 +1200 |
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Add mw(1df)
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diff --git a/man/man1/mw.1df b/man/man1/mw.1df new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51623600 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/mw.1df @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.TH MW 1df "May 2017" "Manual page for mw" +.SH NAME +.B mw +\- get space-delimited alphabetic words from input, one per line +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mw FILE1 +[FILE2...] +.br +prog1 | +.B mw +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B mw +separates the input into space-delimited words and prints them one per line, +with no deduplication or sorting. It's a fairly naïve approach to the problem +but it works fine as a crude initial approach. +.SH NOTES +This was written after watching that lovely old AT&T video where members of the +Unix team (specifically Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry) demonstrate piping +programs together; Kernighan demonstrates `makewords` during his example. +.P +<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&t=5m30s> +.SH SEE ALSO +ddup(1df), sort(1), uniq(1) +.SH AUTHOR +Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> |