81 lines
2.9 KiB
Groff
81 lines
2.9 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: banner.6,v 1.18 2012/02/26 21:06:59 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993, 1995
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)banner.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95
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.\"
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.Dd February 26, 2012
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.Dt BANNER 6
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm banner
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.Nd print large banners
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl w Ar width
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.Op Ar message
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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prints a large, high quality banner on standard output.
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If
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.Ar message
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is omitted, one line of standard input is read for it.
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A prompt is written to standard error in case standard input is
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connected to a terminal.
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.Pp
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If
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.Fl w
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is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 (the default) to
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.Ar width ,
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suitable for a narrow terminal.
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.Pp
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The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width,
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with no breaks between the pages.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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The following command will print the current date as a banner on
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standard output, using a width of 80:
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.Pp
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.Dl "/usr/games/banner -w 80 `date`"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr banner 1 ,
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.Xr lpr 1
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Mark Horton
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.Sh BUGS
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Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably \*[Lt], \*[Gt], [, ], \e,
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^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and \*[Am] are funny
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looking (but in a useful way.)
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl w
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option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns.
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The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
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Sometimes it runs letters together.
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