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+.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>