01-30-2011
cat does not edit part of files, no. it always spews out entire files.
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katoob
KATOOB(1) General Commands Manual KATOOB(1)
NAME
katoob - A Gtk2 light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor.
katoob is a text editor for X, You can use it to create and edit text files. Katoob support reading and saving text files in many encod-
ings. As well as importing / exporting to HTML character reference.
SYNOPSIS
katoob [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the katoob commands.
katoob is a light weight, multi lingual, BiDi aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main sup-
port was for Arabic language but more languages are currently supported.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-u, --usage
Display brief usage message.
- Read input from the standard input.
files...
Specifies the files to be opened. Multiple files are supported but they should be separated by spaces, Reading from pipes is also
supported by using a dash "-". If no files specified, Katoob'll start with an empty document.
FILES
$HOME/.katoob/
User's configuration files directory
$HOME/.katoob/config
Main configuration file
$HOME/.katoob/recent
Recent files list
$PREFIX/share/katoob
Global program directory
EXAMPLES
Opening multiple files:
katoob foo.txt bar.text zot
Opening a file called foo and the output of cat:
cat bar | katoob foo -
Reading from a pipe:
ls | katoob -
Reading from multiple pipes:
katoob - -
Here katoob'll try to read from the standard input 2 times. To close the standard input you should press CTRL-D For each dash passed,
Katoob'll reopen the standard input and read from it.
BUGS
Something like cat foo | katoob - - "should read cat output and then wait for the user input and open each one in a separate document" is
not supported.
AUTHOR
katoob was written by Mohammed Sameer.
BUGS
Bugs should be reported at http://bugzilla.arabeyes.org/ or the Arabeyes.org developer mailing list developer@arabeyes.org.
June 22, 2003 KATOOB(1)