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diff --git a/man/man1/p.1df b/man/man1/p.1df new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2f9f3c45 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/p.1df @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.TH P 1df "May 2017" "Manual page for p" +.SH NAME +.B p +\- print standard input to standard output +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B p +FILE1 [FILE2...] +.br +prog1 | +.B +p +.br +prog1 | +.B +p +FILE1 - FILE2 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B p +prints concatenated standard input from files to standard output, and nothing +else; cat(1) as it always should have been--no flags, and hence no need for +end-of-options for filenames that start with a dash. +.P +Quicker to type, too. +.P +Still treats an "-" argument as a shorthand for "standard input" though, +because I like that and it's POSIX. +.SH POETRY + "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!-- +.br + Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, +.br + Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted-- +.br + On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore-- +.br + Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!" +.br + Quoth the Raven "Nevermore." +.P + -- Poe +.SH SEE ALSO +cat(1) +.SH AUTHOR +Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> |