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   1 .TH merge-services 1 "29 April 2005"
   2 .SH NAME
   3 merge-services \- merge entries from several /etc/services files
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B merge-services
   6 .I file
   7 \&...
   8 .SH DESCRIPTION
   9 The
  10 .B merge-services
  11 command reads the services files given on the command line and writes a
  12 merged file to its standard output.
  13 .PP
  14 A services entry consists of five parts: a
  15 .IR name ,
  16 a
  17 .IR "port number" ,
  18 a
  19 .IR protocol ,
  20 a list of
  21 .IR aliases ,
  22 and a
  23 .IR comment .
  24 The merging process discards all comments.  Two entries match if their
  25 names, ports and protocols are all equal: in this case, the output
  26 contains a single entry listing the union of both sets of aliases.  In
  27 all other cases, entries are left alone.
  28 .SH BUGS
  29 It's very stupid.
  30 .SH AUTHOR
  31 Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>