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NAME¶
asubst - Area Substitution
SYNOPSIS¶
asubst [-o outputfile] [-v] [inputfile]
DESCRIPTION¶
The asubst program reads inputfile or from "stdin" and performs the following action: Characters and substrings are substituted according to Perl-like substitution commands enclosed by surrounding area delimiters. The substitution commands recognized are
[[s/pattern/string/options]] [[tr/input/output/options]]
and the areas are defined by blocks delimited via
{: ... :}
EXAMPLE¶
{: [[s/ae/ä/]] [[s/ue/ü/]] Foo Bar Baz Quux with Umlauts ae and ue :}
OPTIONS¶
- -o outputfile
- This redirects the output to outputfile. Usually the output will be send to "stdout" if no such option is specified or outputfile is ""-"".
- -v
- This sets verbose mode where some processing information will be given on the console.
AUTHOR¶
Ralf S. Engelschall rse@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com
2018-11-02 | EN Tools |