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25.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/soelim/soelim.1 290478 2015-11-07 01:58:23Z bapt $
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27.Dd November 7, 2015
28.Dt SOELIM 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm soelim
32.Nd interpret .so requests in manpages
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl Crtv
36.Op Fl I Ar dir
37.Op Ar
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41utility
42reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
43inclusion implied by the
44.Xr nroff 1
45directives of the form:
46.Pp
47.Dl \&.so anotherfile
48.Pp
49If a line starts with:
50.Dq .so anotherfile
51it replaces the line by processing
52.Dq anotherfile .
53Otherwise the line is printed to stdout.
54.Bl -tag -width "-I dir"
55.It Fl C
56Recognise
57.Em .so
58when it is not followed by a space character.
59.It Fl r
60Compatibility with groff's
61.Xr soelim 1
62(does nothing).
63.It Fl t
64Compatibility with groff's
65.Xr soelim 1
66(does nothing).
67.It Fl v
68Compatibility with groff's
69.Xr soelim 1
70(does nothing).
71.It Fl I Ar dir
72This option specifies directories where
73.Nm
74searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in
75.Dq .so
76directive.)
77This option may be specified multiple times.
78The directories will be searched in the order specified.
79.El
80.Pp
81The files are always searched first in the current directory.
82.Pp
83A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without
84performing a search.
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr mandoc 1
87.Sh AUTHORS
88This version of the
89.Nm
90utility was written by
91.An Baptiste Daroussin Aq Mt bapt@freebsd.org .
92