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-rw-r--r--man/.gitignore1
-rw-r--r--man/Makefile.am1
-rw-r--r--man/stdbuf.x16
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/.gitignore b/man/.gitignore
index e9e270da9..1085ff055 100644
--- a/man/.gitignore
+++ b/man/.gitignore
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ sleep.1
sort.1
split.1
stat.1
+stdbuf.1
stty.1
su.1
sum.1
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index ee16a3ff2..cacaba663 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ sleep.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/sleep.x ../src/sleep.c
sort.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/sort.x ../src/sort.c
split.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/split.x ../src/split.c
stat.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/stat.x ../src/stat.c
+stdbuf.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/stdbuf.x ../src/stdbuf.c
stty.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/stty.x ../src/stty.c
su.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/su.x ../src/su.c
sum.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/sum.x ../src/sum.c
diff --git a/man/stdbuf.x b/man/stdbuf.x
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93f0b8e4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/stdbuf.x
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+'\" Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
+'\" of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+'\" There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+[NAME]
+stdbuf \- Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
+[DESCRIPTION]
+.\" Add any additional description here
+[EXAMPLES]
+.B tail -f access.log | stdbuf -oL cut -d \(aq \(aq -f1 | uniq
+.br
+This will immedidately display unique entries from access.log
+[BUGS]
+On GLIBC platforms, specifying a buffer size, i.e. using fully buffered mode
+will result in undefined operation.