RUX(1) BSD General Commands Manual RUX(1)NAMErux — used for reading of files in Cyrillic encoding.
SYNOPSISrux [-egtT] [-i incp] [-o outcp] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The rux is a simple and at the same time powerful utility for texts
recoding from one encoding to another. At present time several the most
popular Cyrillic code pages such as koi8-r, cp866, cp1251, iso-8859-5,
mac-cyrillic and utf-8 are supported. Also rux gives the opportunity to
recode box-drawing characters, which exists in some Cyrillic code pages,
to replace them by their non-graphic analogues ('-', '+', etc.).
Besides, the rux can detect a code page of the input files automatically.
Usually rux is used without any options because some values are accepted
by default. There are -o utf-8, -e, -t, -s 10240.
However you can use the following options:
-e Replace box-drawing characters by their non-graphic analogues.
Accepted by default.
-g Inverse of -e option. (Overrides any previous -e option).
-t Attempt to detect a code page of the input files. Accepted by
default.
-T Same as -t, but don't actually recode the input files, just show
their code pages.
-i Specify an input code page. Use -h option to determine the sup‐
ported code pages list.
-o Specify an output code page. Default is ‘koi8-r’.
-q Suspress all warnings.
-h Show the short help message with the accepted flags and the sup‐
ported code pages.
The expectancy value of the presence of every Cyrillic characters in the
some text were taken from the dump of Russian translation of the ‘FreeBSD
Handbook’.
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of usage of the rux command:
$ ls -la *-text
-rw-r--r-- 1 ghos users 24 Nov 18 18:03 dos-text
-rw-r--r-- 1 ghos users 24 Nov 18 18:03 windows-text
$ rux-T *-text
dos-text: cp866
windows-text: cp1251
For example, this alias can be set for cp1251 encoding:
$ alias cp1251='rux -i cp1251'
$ cat windows-text | cp1251
..
But this shell-script can be created:
#!/bin/sh
rux $@ | less
and called as ruless :-):
$ ruless cyr-text-file
..
$ cat cyr-text-file | ruless
..
SEE ALSO
Roman Czyborra, The Cyrillic Charset Soup, November 30, 1998,
http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html.
HISTORY
The rux appeared in 2003.
This manual was written in 2005.
AUTHORS
Vyacheslav Anikin ⟨anikinsl@gmail.com⟩ — author, russian manual
BUGS
Please let me know if you found them. I don't like bugs.
FreeBSD 5.3 November 18, 2005 FreeBSD 5.3
