gen-adapter(1)

gen-adapter1

Execute an arbitrary unix command as tool

Usage

gen-adapter [-help] [-keepnewline] [-addnewline] [-string-output] [-binary-output] [-term-output] [-cmd C1 ...]

Overview

This manual page briefly describes the gen-adapter commands.

Options

-help

print a description of all arguments and exit

-keepnewline

keep the last newline character in the output generated by the command. Without this argument, tha last newline character is always removed

-addnewline

always add a newline character ti the standard input fot the command

-string-output

return the output of the command as string (type: "str"). When no output format has ben specified, -string-output is used.

-binary-output

return the output of command as a binary string(type: "bstr").

-term-output

return the output of the command as term(type: "term")

Author

This manual page was written by Julien LEMOINE <[email protected]>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

From xt-toolbus 0.25-2 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.