12-21-2011
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Originally Posted by
shorty
Thank you for the response. Yes, I'm aware of the 'tail' syntax. I just mentioned it in a general context.
How about you tell us
exactly what you're doing then, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke? "general context" may not be enough. We need to see
exactly what you're doing to tell if anything's wrong.
'find' just writes to stdout like any other command. I don't suppose your disk's full or anything like that.
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DEROFF(1) General Commands Manual DEROFF(1)
NAME
deroff - remove nroff, troff, tbl and eqn constructs
SYNOPSIS
deroff [ -w ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Deroff reads each file in sequence and removes all nroff and troff command lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions, eqn con-
structs (between `.EQ' and `.EN' lines or between delimiters), and table descriptions and writes the remainder on the standard output.
Deroff follows chains of included files (`.so' and `.nx' commands); if a file has already been included, a `.so' is ignored and a `.nx'
terminates execution. If no input file is given, deroff reads from the standard input file.
If the -w flag is given, the output is a word list, one `word' (string of letters, digits, and apostrophes, beginning with a letter; apos-
trophes are removed) per line, and all other characters ignored. Otherwise, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned
above.
SEE ALSO
troff(1), eqn(1), tbl(1)
BUGS
Deroff is not a complete troff interpreter, so it can be confused by subtle constructs. Most errors result in too much rather than too
little output.
7th Edition April 29, 1985 DEROFF(1)