man-pages/scripts/find_repeated_words.sh

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#!/bin/sh
#
# find_repeated_words.sh
#
# A simple script for finding instances of repeated consecutive words
# in manual pages -- human inspection can then determine if these
# are real errors in the text.
#
# Usage: sh find_repeated_words.sh [file...]
#
for file in "$@" ; do
words=$(MANWIDTH=2000 man -l "$file" 2> /dev/null | col -b | \
tr ' \008' '\012' | sed -e '/^$/d' | \
sed 's/ *$//' |
awk 'BEGIN {p=""} {if (p==$0) print p; p=$0}' | \
grep '[a-zA-Z]' | tr '\012' ' ')
if test -n "$words"; then
echo "$file: $words"
fi
done