.TH merge-services 1 "29 April 2005"
.SH NAME
merge-services \- merge entries from several /etc/services files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B merge-services
.I file
\&...
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B merge-services
command reads the services files given on the command line and writes a
merged file to its standard output.
.PP
A services entry consists of five parts: a
.IR name ,
a
.IR "port number" ,
a
.IR protocol ,
a list of
.IR aliases ,
and a
.IR comment .
The merging process discards all comments.  Two entries match if their
names, ports and protocols are all equal: in this case, the output
contains a single entry listing the union of both sets of aliases.  In
all other cases, entries are left alone.
.SH BUGS
It's very stupid.
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>