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RUX(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual RUX(1)

rux
used for reading of files in Cyrillic encoding.

rux [-egtT] [-i incp] [-o outcp] [file ...]

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:

Replace box-drawing characters by their non-graphic analogues. Accepted by default.
Inverse of -e option. (Overrides any previous -e option).
Attempt to detect a code page of the input files. Accepted by default.
Same as -t, but don't actually recode the input files, just show their code pages.
Specify an input code page. Use -h option to determine the supported code pages list.
Specify an output code page. Default is ‘koi8-r’.
Suspress all warnings.
Show the short help message with the accepted flags and the supported 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’.

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
..

Roman Czyborra, The Cyrillic Charset Soup, November 30, 1998, http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html.

The rux appeared in 2003.

This manual was written in 2005.

Vyacheslav Anikin ⟨anikinsl@gmail.com⟩ —
author, russian manual

Please let me know if you found them. I don't like bugs.
November 18, 2005 FreeBSD 5.3

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