78 lines
1.4 KiB
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78 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2024 DTB <trinity@trinity.moe>
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.\" Copyright (c) 2024 Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>
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.\"
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.\" This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To see a copy of this license,
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.\" visit <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>.
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.TH swab 1
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.SH NAME
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swab \(en swap bytes
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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swab
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.RB ( -f )
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.RB ( -w
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.R [
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.B word size
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.R ])
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.SH USAGE
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Swap the latter and former halves of a block of bytes.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.B -f
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.RS
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Ignore system call interruptions.
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.RE
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.B -w
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.RS
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Configures the word size; that is, the size in bytes of the block size
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on which to operate. By default the word size is 2. The word size must be
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cleanly divisible by 2, otherwise the block of bytes being processed can't be
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halved.
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.RE
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.SH EXAMPLES
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The following sh(1p) line:
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.RS
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.R printf 'hello world!\n' | swab
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.RE
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Produces the following output:
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.RS
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.R ehll oowlr!d
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.RE
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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In the event of an error, a debug message will be printed and the program will
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exit with the appropriate sysexits.h(3) error code.
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.SH RATIONALE
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This program was modeled and named after the
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.R conv=swab
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functionality specified in the dd(1p) utility. It additionally allows the word
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size to be configured.
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This functionality is useful for fixing the endianness of binary files produced
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on other machines.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2024 DTB. License AGPLv3+: GNU AGPL version 3 or later
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<https://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html>.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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dd(1p)
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