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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> | 2008-05-18 18:33:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> | 2008-05-18 18:33:53 +0300 |
| commit | 772dbd918b40ec3040dcf39335f1ed7a0188ad5a (patch) | |
| tree | d194cdcd5b6c8c4f6e19f3e9e3ebaccbe37cdde2 /isascii.1 | |
| parent | 735ad6669ce486ef13d9f91118b404a8a4f804d7 (diff) | |
| download | extrautils-772dbd918b40ec3040dcf39335f1ed7a0188ad5a.tar.gz | |
Wrote an isascii manual page.
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diff --git a/isascii.1 b/isascii.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..767f89e --- /dev/null +++ b/isascii.1 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +.TH ISASCII 1 +.NAME +isascii \- verify that input files consist of ASCII characters only +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BR isascii " [" "-hq" "] [" --help "] [" --quiet "]" +.IR file ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B isascii +reads through one or more files, and determines if they contain only +ASCII characters. +Input comes from files named on the command line, or from the +standard input if there are no filenames on the command line. +.PP +An ASCII character is any byte with a value of 0 through 127, +inclusive. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR -h ", " --help +Write out a short usage message. +.TP +.BR -q ", " --quiet +Do not write any output except error messages. +Indicate ASCII/not-ASCII status only via the exit code. +.SH "EXIT STATUS" +.B isascii +returns an exit code of 0 if all input files (or standard input) consisted +only of ASCII characters. +It returns a non-zero error code if there were errors or at least one of +the inputs was not pure ASCII. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR isutf8 (1). |