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 the
13       command line or from standard input and writes (to standard output) the
14       complete conjugation of those verbs, if they are known.
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16       The  standard  input  is  not  read if verbs are passed as command-line
17       arguments.
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19       Each mode and tense is introduced by a line that starts with  a  hyphen
20       and  a  space,  and ends with a colon.  The mode and tense in that line
21       are always in English, regardless of the user's current locale.   (This
22       is  meant  to facilitate automatic parsing of the output.  For a French
23       user interface, see the GNOME application and applet.)  The conjugation
24       is ended with a line that only contains a hyphen.  If the given verb is
25       unknown or not in the infinitive form, only this line is written.
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27       The command flushes its output  buffer  after  finishing  each  answer.
28       This  allows  the  command  to  be  easily  called from another program
29       through two pipes.
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31       The command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typi‐
32       cally  in  /usr/share/verbiste-0.1).   This takes some time, so it is a
33       good idea to have the command answer many requests instead  of  running
34       it for each request.
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36       The  verbiste  library's  source archive contains Perl and Java example
37       programs that illustrate this technique.
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39       There must not be any leading or trailing white  spaces  on  the  lines
40       read by the command.
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42       In  the  past participle tense, four lines are written: they correspond
43       in order to the masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular
44       and feminine plural.
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OPTIONS

47       --help display a help page and exit
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49       --version
50              display version information and exit
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52       --lang=L
53              select  the  language  to use (fr for French or it for Italian);
54              French is the default language
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56       --mode=M
57              only display mode M, where M can be infinitive, indicative, con‐
58              ditional, subjunctive, imperative or participle (M can also be a
59              comma-separated list of modes)
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61       --tense=T
62              only display tense T, where T can be present, past, imperfect or
63              future (T can also be a comma-separated list of tenses)
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65       --pronouns
66              show the pronouns
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68       --all-infinitives
69              print  the  infinitive  form  of  all the verbs in the knowledge
70              base, one per line, unsorted; other command-line  arguments  are
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73       --data-dir=D
74              Get  the  XML data files from directory D instead of the default
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EXAMPLES

78       $ french-conjugator aimer
79       - infinitive present:
80       aimer
81       - indicative present:
82       aime
83       aimes
84       aime
85       aimons
86       aimez
87       aiment
88       - indicative imperfect:
89       aimais
90       aimais
91       aimait
92       [...]
93       - participle past:
94       aimé
95       aimés
96       aimée
97       aimées
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LICENSE

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

106       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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BUGS

109       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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