.TH DAM 1df "May 2017" "Manual page for dam" .SH NAME .B dam \- read all input before emitting as output .SH SYNOPSIS prog1 | .B dam | prog2 .SH DESCRIPTION .B dam buffers all its input before emitting it as output. Useful if you don't actually want a line-by-line flow between programs, such as pasting a complete document into a sed(1) pipeline on the terminal. .SH AUTHOR Tom Ryder