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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> |