From bdb507e4ca5163ea2e73f4d779a0acff4f362f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:32:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Script to 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.

---
 scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh

diff --git a/scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh b/scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0f56d203d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/remove_COLOPHON.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/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