NAME

hyphen − find hyphenated words

SYNOPSIS

hyphen [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

Hyphen finds all the hyphenated words ending lines in files and prints them on the standard output.  If no arguments are given, the standard input is used; thus, hyphen may be used as a filter. 

EXAMPLE

If the file "text.hyphen" contains the following text:

This is an ex-
ample of the command hy-
phen, a com-
mand which finds all hyphen-
ated words in files and prints them on stan-
dard out-
put.

then

hyphen text.hyphen

will return

ex-ample
hy-phen
com-mand
hyphen-ated
stan-dard
out-put

SEE ALSO

mm(1), troff(1). 

BUGS

Hyphen can’t cope with hyphenated italic (i.e., underlined) words; it will often miss them completely, or mangle them. 
Hyphen occasionally gets confused, but with no ill effects other than spurious extra output. 

Version 2.1  —  January 02, 1985