August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 45m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins
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Name
m4
Synopsis
m4 [options] [macros] [files]
Description
Macro processor for C and other files.
Options
- -e, --interactive
Operate interactively, ignoring interrupts.
- -d flags, --debug= flags
Specify flag-level debugging.
- -l n, --arglength= n
Specify the length of debugging output.
- -o file, --error-output= file
Place output in file. Despite the name, print error messages on standard error.
- -p, --prefix-built-ins
Prepend m4_ to all built-in macro names.
- -s, --synclines
Insert #line directives for the C preprocessor.
- -B n
Set the size of the push-back and argument collection buffers to n (default is 4096).
- -D name[= value], --define= name[= value]
Define name as value or, if value is not specified, define name as null.
- -E, --fatal-warnings
Consider all warnings to be fatal, and exit after the first of them.
- -F file, --freeze-state file
Record m4’s frozen state in file, for later reloading.
- -G, --traditional
Behave like traditional m4, ignoring GNU extensions.
- -H n, --hashsize= n
Set symbol-table hash array to n (default is 509).
- -I directory, --include= directory
Search directory for include files.
- -Q, --quiet, --silent
Suppress warning messages.
- -R file, --reload-state file
Load state from file before starting execution.
- -U name, --undefine= name
Undefine name.
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