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author | Cameron Katri <me@cameronkatri.com> | 2021-05-09 14:20:58 -0400 |
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bootstrap_cmds-116.100.1
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diff --git a/text_cmds/vis/vis.1 b/text_cmds/vis/vis.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..093e382 --- /dev/null +++ b/text_cmds/vis/vis.1 @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)vis.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 +.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/vis/vis.1,v 1.12 2005/02/13 22:25:25 ru Exp $ +.\" +.Dd June 25, 2004 +.Dt VIS 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vis +.Nd display non-printable characters in a visual format +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl cbflnostw +.Op Fl F Ar foldwidth +.Op Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility is a filter for converting non-printable characters +into a visual representation. +It differs from +.Ql cat -v +in that +the form is unique and invertible. +By default, all non-graphic +characters except space, tab, and newline are encoded. +A detailed description of the +various visual formats is given in +.Xr vis 3 . +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl b +Turns off prepending of backslash before up-arrow control sequences +and meta characters, and disables the doubling of backslashes. +This +produces output which is neither invertible or precise, but does +represent a minimum of change to the input. +It is similar to +.Dq Li cat -v . +.It Fl c +Request a format which displays a small subset of the +non-printable characters using C-style backslash sequences. +.It Fl F +Causes +.Nm +to fold output lines to foldwidth columns (default 80), like +.Xr fold 1 , +except +that a hidden newline sequence is used, (which is removed +when inverting the file back to its original form with +.Xr unvis 1 ) . +If the last character in the encoded file does not end in a newline, +a hidden newline sequence is appended to the output. +This makes +the output usable with various editors and other utilities which +typically do not work with partial lines. +.It Fl f +Same as +.Fl F . +.It Fl l +Mark newlines with the visible sequence +.Ql \e$ , +followed by the newline. +.It Fl n +Turns off any encoding, except for the fact that backslashes are +still doubled and hidden newline sequences inserted if +.Fl f +or +.Fl F +is selected. +When combined with the +.Fl f +flag, +.Nm +becomes like +an invertible version of the +.Xr fold 1 +utility. +That is, the output +can be unfolded by running the output through +.Xr unvis 1 . +.It Fl o +Request a format which displays non-printable characters as +an octal number, \eddd. +.It Fl s +Only characters considered unsafe to send to a terminal are encoded. +This flag allows backspace, bell, and carriage return in addition +to the default space, tab and newline. +.It Fl t +Tabs are also encoded. +.It Fl w +White space (space-tab-newline) is also encoded. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr unvis 1 , +.Xr vis 3 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . +.Sh BUGS +Due to limitations in the underlying +.Xr vis 3 +function, the +.Nm +utility +does not recognize multibyte characters, and thus may consider them to be +non-printable when they are in fact printable (and vice versa). |