HLINS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 25, 2000
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NAME

hlins - insert url's into html documents

SYNOPSIS

hlins [options] [infile]

DESCRIPTION

hlins is a program that inserts hypertext links into html documents, according to one or several data bases associating addresses (url's) to names. hlins is designed for inserting links for persons: It knows about abbreviations of first and middle names and tolerated dropping of the last part of a composite last name.

If no file argument is given then input is taken from stdin; when no output option (see below) is given then output goes to stdout.

For a complete description, see the documentation in html format.

OPTIONS

hlins follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--').

-o, --output-file file: Write to file instead of standard output
-h, --help: Show a summary of options.
-v, --version: Show the version of the program.
-q, --quiet: Suppress diagnostic output.
-db, --data-bases files ...: Use files ... as data bases
-m, --modify files ...: Don't act as filter but perform in-place modifications of files.
-R, --recursive: Recursively descend into directories and act on all files with names ending on .html.
-td, --tmp-dir dir: Use directory dir to create temporary files.
--db-to-html: List the address data bases in HTML format to stdout.

ENVIRONMENT

TMPDIR: default directory for creating temporay files.

VERSION

This manual pages describes version 0.39.

AUTHOR

Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>.

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