french-conjugator(1)

1french-conjugator(1)                                      french-conjugator(1)
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NAME

6       french-conjugator - conjugate French verbs
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SYNOPSIS

9       echo aimer | french-conjugator > result.txt
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DESCRIPTION

12       french-conjugator  reads  the  infinitive form of French verbs from its
13       standard input and writes (to standard output) the complete conjugation
14       of those verbs, if they are known.
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16       Each  mode  and tense is introduced by a line that starts with a hyphen
17       and a space, and ends with a colon.  The conjugation is  ended  with  a
18       line  that only contains a hyphen.  If the given verb is unknown or not
19       in the infinitive form, only such a line is written.
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21       The command flushes its output  buffer  after  finishing  each  answer.
22       This  allows  the  command  to  be  easily  called from another program
23       through two pipes.
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25       The command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typi‐
26       cally  in  /usr/share/verbiste).  This takes some time, so it is a good
27       idea to have the command answer many requests instead of running it for
28       each request.
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30       The  verbiste  library's  source archive contains Perl and Java example
31       programs that illustrate this technique.
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33       This commands expects to read Latin-1  characters  and  writes  Latin-1
34       characters.   There must not be any leading or trailing white spaces on
35       the lines read by the command.
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37       In the past participle tense, four lines are written:  they  correspond
38       in order to the masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular
39       and feminine plural.
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OPTIONS

42       --help display a help page and exit
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44       --version
45              display version information and exit
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47       --mode=M
48              only display mode M, where M can be infinitive, indicative, con‐
49              ditional, subjunctive, imperative or participle
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51       --tense=T
52              only display tense T, where T can be present, past, imperfect or
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55       --pronouns
56              show the pronouns
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58       --utf8 assume that the terminal uses  the  UTF-8  encoding  instead  of
59              Latin-1  (ISO-8859-1)  -- try this option if Verbiste claims not
60              to know a verb that contains an accented character
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EXAMPLES

63       $ echo aimer | french-conjugator
64       - infinitive present:
65       aimer
66       - indicative present:
67       aime
68       aimes
69       aime
70       aimons
71       aimez
72       aiment
73       - indicative imperfect:
74       aimais
75       aimait
76       [...]
77       - participle past:
78       aimé
79       aimés
80       aimée
81       aimées
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LICENSE

85       This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the  terms
86       of the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no war‐
87       ranty.
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AUTHOR

90       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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BUGS

93       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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