.TH update-services 8 "29 April 2005"
.SH NAME
update-services \- update the /etc/services file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-services
.IR [ file
\&...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B update-services
merges the contents of the files in 
.B /etc/services.d
and any given on the command line, and writes the result to
.BR /etc/services .
.PP
To save Emacs users from going mental, it ignores files whose names end
in
.RB ` # '
or
.RB ` ~ '.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR merge-services (1).
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>