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.Dd May 1, 2015
.Dt SOELIM 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm soelim
.Nd interpret .so requests in manpages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl Crtv
.Op Fl I Ar dir
.Op Ar files ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
reads
.Ar files
lines by lines.
.Pp
If a line starts by:
.Dq .so anotherfile
it replace the line by processing
.Dq anotherfile .
Otherwise the line is printed to stdout.
.Bl -tag -width "-I dir"
.It Fl C
Recognise
.Em .so
when not followed by a space character.
.It Fl r
Compatibility with GNU groff's
.Xr soelim 1
(does nothing).
.It Fl t
Compatibility with GNU groff's
.Xr soelim 1
(does nothing).
.It Fl v
Compatibility with GNU groff's
.Xr soelim 1
(does nothing).
.It Fl I Ar dir
This option specify directories where
.Nm
searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in
.Dq .so
directive.)
This options may be specified multiple times. The directories will be searched
in the order specified.
.El
.Pp
The files are always searched first in the current directory.
.Pp
A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without
performing a search.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mandoc 1
.Sh AUTHORS
This version of the
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Baptiste Daroussin Aq Mt bapt@freebsd.org .