skroll.1 (948B)
1 .TH skroll 1 2014-09-03 "v3.0" "Skroll nanual" 2 .SH NAME 3 skroll \- make a given text scroll 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B skroll 6 .RI [ \-hlr ]\ [ \-n\ num ]\ [ \-d\ delay ] 7 .SH DESCRIPTION 8 .PP 9 .B skroll 10 reads text from stdin and make it scroll to stdout. 11 .TP 12 .B \-h 13 Displays a help text 14 .TP 15 .B \-l 16 Loop text forever 17 .TP 18 .B \-r 19 Output a newline after each step 20 .TP 21 .BI \-n\ <num> 22 Show <num> char at a time (defaults to 10) 23 .TP 24 .BI \-d\ <delay> 25 Define scrolling speed, in second/step (defaults to 0.5) 26 .SH EXAMPLES 27 .TP 28 \(buLoop indefinitely: 29 \fBecho\fR "Hello world!" | \fBskroll\fR \-l 30 .TP 31 \(buOutput \fIX\fR characters at a time: 32 \fBskroll\fR \-n \fIX\fR < \fIFILE\fR 33 .TP 34 \(buRotate a step every \fIX\fR seconds: 35 \fBmpc\fR current \-\-wait | \fBskroll\fR -d \fIX\fR 36 .SH REPORTING BUGS 37 If you encounter any bugs, feel free to report them at \fIwilly@mailoo.org\fR 38 .SH AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS 39 Willy Goiffon is the main author. 40 Dave Chesser helped with the man page