ul
do underlining
see also :
colcrt - man - nroff
Synopsis
ul [-i]
[-t terminal]
[file ...]
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description
The ul utility reads the
named files (or standard input if none are given) and
translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which
indicates underlining for the terminal in use, as specified
by the environment variable TERM. The file
/etc/termcap is read to determine the appropriate
sequences for underlining. If the terminal is incapable of
underlining, but is capable of a standout mode then that is
used instead. If the terminal can overstrike, or handles
underlining automatically, ul degenerates to cat(1).
If the terminal cannot underline, underlining is ignored.
During the translation some other special characters also
get translated. E.g. TAB gets expanded to spaces.
The following
options are available:
-i
Underlining is
indicated by a separate line containing appropriate dashes
’-’; this is useful when you want to look
at the underlining which is present in an nroff(1) output
stream on a CRT-terminal.
-t
terminal
Overrides the terminal type
specified in the environment with terminal.
environment
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and TERM environment variables affect
the execution of ul as described in environ(7).
exit status
The ul utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if
an error occurs.
bugs
The nroff(1) command usually
outputs a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed
with the text to indicate underlining. No attempt is made to
optimize the backward motion.
BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD
history
The ul command appeared
in 3.0BSD.
see also
colcrt , man , nroff