cut

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Updated: January 30, 1988
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NAME

cut - cut text from a MGR window and send it to a program.

SYNOPSIS

cut [ -s ] [ command ]

DESCRIPTION

Cut watches the global MGR cut buffer and when activated, reads the buffer and starts <command> with the contents of the buffer as <command>'s standard input.

Initially, cut prompts the user for a spot on the display, moves there and becomes a closed file cabinet icon. Any time text is cut to to MGR 's global buffer, cut highlights the file cabinet to indicate it has seen the cut text. Cut prepends the current date, time and message size to the text sent to <command>.

If -s is specified, cut does not prompt the user for a spot, but uses the window as is. This is useful for starting cut from the MGR startup file. If no command is given, cut looks for the command in the environment variable CUT .

BUGS

AUTHOR

S. A. Uhler

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