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SRCREDACT(1) Text tools SRCREDACT(1)

NAME

srcredact - a program for redaction of text files

SYNOPSIS

srcredact [OPTIONS] -e audience [full_file]

srcredact [OPTIONS] -u audience full_file [redacted_file]

srcredact -l [full_file]

srcredact -h|-v

DESCRIPTION

srcredact is the program to extract ``redacted versions'' of the master file (option -e) or to incorporate the changes in the redacted versions into the master file (``unredact'', option -u).

The master file consists of chunks intended for different audiences. Each audience has a name, e.g. "classified", "unclssified", "expert" etc. Chunks are started and stopped by guard lines. Each guard line has the format (for the default TeX syntax)

  %<*name1|name2|...>

or

  %</name1|name2|...>

In the first cases the text following the guard is included for the audiences "name1", "name2", .... In the second case it is excluded for these audiences.

THere is a special audience "ALL": a wild card for all audiences. Thus the idiom

  %</ALL>
  %<*classified>

means that the chunk is excluded for all audiences but "classified"

Exactly one of the options -e (extract) or -u (unextract) must be present. In the extract mode the non-option argument is the name of the full file. If it is absent, or is "-", standard input is used. In the unextract mode the first non-option argument

OPTIONS

Use the given pattern for comment lines to search for guards instead of the default "TeX" pattern. The recognized patterns are:
  /*<guard>*/
    
  //<guard>
    
  C<guard>
    
  #<guard>
    
  %<guard>
    

The pattern names should be separated by commas, and the list may be enclosed in quotes to prevent shell expansion, e.g

  -c "TeX, c, shell"
Debug mode on.
Extract the contents for the current audience into the file file. The cuurent audience is guessed from the file name, if the latter has the structure base-audience.extension, e.g. "report-unclassified.tex". The key -a overrides this guess and should be used if the file name does not follow this pattern. The file name "-" means the standard output.
Print help information and exit.
List all audiences set in the file (one per line) and exit.
Take a edited file intended for the audience (the second non-option argument) and incorporate the changes in it into the full file (the first non-option argument). If the second argument is missing, standard input is used instead. As usual, "-" also means standard input. Note that only one of the two file arguments in this case can be standard input.
Print version information and exit.
If "on", 1 or "true" (the deafult), implicitly wrap the full document into the guards

 %<*ALL>
 ...
 %</ALL>
    

RETURN VALUE

The program returns 0 if successful, 1 if conflicts were found in the "unextract" mode and 2 in case of problems.

CONFLICTS IN UNEXTRACT MODE

Like the standard diff3(1) tool, the program may find conflicts between the full version and the edited one in the -u mode. Then the resulting file brackets the conflicts in the usual manner, e.g.

  <<<<<<< /tmp/BrjXo0hMOB/full
  %</nobonds>
  Forty-five tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnace, gold
  7 per cents., 1864, preferred.
  %<*nobonds>
  ||||||| /tmp/BrjXo0hMOB/extracted
  Forty-five tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnace, gold
  7 per cents., 1864, preferred.
  =======
  >>>>>>> /tmp/BrjXo0hMOB/new

Here "full" is the full document, "extracted" is the extracted file for the given audience, "new" is the edited file.

AUTHOR

Boris Veytsman, borisv@lk.net

This work was commissioned by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, United States Treasury.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2015 Boris Veytsman. Version 1.0

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA

2015-10-24 1.0