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| 3770fe80 | 1 | .de VS |
| 2 | .sp 1 | |
| 3 | .RS | |
| 4 | .nf | |
| 5 | .ft B | |
| 6 | .. | |
| 7 | .de VE | |
| 8 | .ft R | |
| 9 | .fi | |
| 10 | .RE | |
| 11 | .sp 1 | |
| 12 | .. | |
| 13 | .TH buf 1 "5 February 2005" "Edgeware tools" | |
| 14 | .SH NAME | |
| 15 | buf \- buffer stdin to a file | |
| 16 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 17 | .B buf | |
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18 | .RB [ \-e |
| 19 | .IR ext ] | |
| 3770fe80 | 20 | .I command |
| 21 | .RI [ arguments ...] | |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 23 | The | |
| 24 | .B buf | |
| 841e5aca | 25 | program writes standard input to a temporary file. It then runs |
| 3770fe80 | 26 | .VS |
| 27 | .IR "command arguments " ... " stdinfile" | |
| 28 | .VE | |
| 29 | and exits with whatever exit status that exited with. | |
| 30 | .PP | |
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31 | Command line options: |
| 32 | .TP | |
| 33 | .B "\-h" | |
| 34 | Show very brief help. | |
| 35 | .TP | |
| 36 | .BI "\-e " ext | |
| 37 | Arrange that the temporary file has the suffix | |
| 38 | .IR ext . | |
| 39 | No | |
| 40 | .RB ` . ' | |
| 41 | is included unless you provide one yourself. | |
| 42 | .PP | |
| 3770fe80 | 43 | This is particularly useful for programs which want to seek their |
| eb16118c | 44 | standard input, for example PostScript viewers. A typical invocation |
| 3770fe80 | 45 | might be something like |
| 46 | .VS | |
| 8b628e9f | 47 | man \-Tps buf | buf \-e.ps gv |
| 3770fe80 | 48 | .VE |
| 49 | .SH BUGS | |
| 50 | Doesn't exit correctly if subprogram was killed by a signal. | |
| 51 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 71d8432e | 52 | Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |