diff --git a/scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh b/scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# remove_COLOPHON.sh
+#
+# Remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as
+# command-line arguments.  (This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
+# sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
+# in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences between
+# the trees.)
+#
+for f in "$@"; do
+    sed -i '/^\.SH COLOPHON/,$d' "$f"
+done