Intel® Fortran Compiler 10.0 for Linux*
Release Notes

Contents

Overview

This product provides tools for Linux* software developers to create Fortran applications that deliver outstanding performance. Intel® Fortran Compiler is a full-language Fortran 95 compiler with many features from the Fortran 2003 standard, plus a wide range of popular language extensions. Intel compilers support multi-threaded code development through autoparallelism and OpenMP* support.

Product Contents

This product is available in two editions.

The Standard Edition contains the following components:

The Professional Edition includes all of the Standard Edition and adds the Intel® Math Kernel Library, which contains highly optimized, extensively threaded, mathematical functions for engineering, scientific, and financial applications that require maximum performance..

Note: The installation path for the Intel® Fortran Compiler is /opt/intel/fc/10.0.xxx , where xxx represents a 3-digit update number. The term <install-dir> is used in throughout this document to refer to the default installation path.

Installation of the Intel® Math Kernel Library is separate from that of the compiler. Please see the Intel® Math Kernel Library Installation Guide for details.

To receive technical support and product updates for the tools provided in this product you need to register. For how to register, please see Technical Support section below.

Compatibility

You must recompile all Fortran sources that were compiled with compilers earlier than version 8.0, including those that create .mod files. Third-party libraries built with versions earlier than 8.0 will also need to be rebuilt - if you are using third-party libraries that do not support Intel Fortran, please let us know which ones through Intel® Premier Support at https://premier.intel.com. Fortran sources built with Intel Fortran 8.0 or later do not need to be recompiled for use with version 10.0.

Please also see the section below on "Change in Linking Mixed Fortran-C/C++ Applications".

What's New in Version 10.0

The following section discusses new features and changes in the Intel Fortran Compiler version 10.0 and updates to 10.0. Please see the separate release notes for the Intel Debugger.

New and Changed Command Line Options

The following is a listing of command line options that are new or have changed since the initial version 9.1 release. Please refer to the compiler documentation for more information on these options.

-assume [no]old_boz
Controls how binary, octal and hexadecimal constants are treated as arguments to the INT, REAL, DBLE and CMPLX intrinsics. See note on Fortran 2003 Behaviors below. (Default: -assume noold_boz)
-assume [no]old_unit_star
Controls how input and output to unit *, as well as ACCEPT, PRINT and TYPE is handled.. See note on Fortran 2003 Behaviors below. (Default: -assume old_unit_star)
-assume protect_parens
Determines whether the optimizer honors parentheses in REAL and COMPLEX expression evaluations by not reassociating operations.
-axS
Specifies that the compiler is to generate SSE4 Vectorizing Compiler and Media Accelerators instructions for future Intel processors that support the instructions, as well as generic IA-32 code. (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off)
-check [no]pointer
Enables or disables run-time checking for accesses through null pointers or of unallocated ALLOCATABLE variables. (Default: off)
-cxxlib-nostd
Prevents the compiler from linking with the standard C++ library (Default: off)
-diag-<type> <diag-list>
Controls the display of diagnostic information (Default: off)
-diag-dump
Tells the compiler to print all enabled diagnostic messages and stop compilation (Default: off)
-diag-enable sv[1|2|3]
Enables the Static Verifier. (Default: off)
-diag-enable sv-include
Specifies that include files should also be considered by the Static Verifier
-[no-]diag-id-numbers
Tells the compiler to display diagnostic messages by using their ID number values (Default: on)
-fast
Enables a set of options for improved performance. The options have changed in this release. Please see note below.
-f[no-]instrument-functions
Determines whether function entry and exit points are instrumented (Default: off)
-f[no]-keep-static-consts
Tells the compiler to preserve allocation of variables that are not referenced in the source (Default: off)
-fp-speculation=<mode>
Tells the compiler the mode in which to speculate on floating-point operations (Default: fast)
-[no-]func-groups
Enables or disables function grouping if profiling information is enabled (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off)
-gdwarf-2
Enables generation of debug information using the DWARF2 format (Default: off)
-heap-arrays[-]
Specifies that automatic arrays and arrays created for temporary computation should be allocated on the heap rather than the stack
-help [category]
Displays all available compiler options or a category of compiler options (Default: off)
-ipo-jobs<n>
Specifies the number of commands (jobs) to be executed simultaneously during the link phase of Interprocedural Optimization (IPO)
-march=<cpu>
Tells the compiler to generate code for a specified CPU (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off)
-msse[n]
Tells the compiler to generate code for certain Intel® processors (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off for IA-32, -msse2 for Intel® 64)
-par-schedule-<keyword>[[]n]
Specifies a scheduling algorithm for DO loop iterations
-[no-]prefetch
Enables or disables the prefetch insertion optimization. This option is effective only when -O3 is in effect. In this release, it is effective on IA-32 when -xT is enabled, in addition to IA-64. (IA-32 and IA-64 only, default: off)
-save-temps[-]
Tells the compiler to save intermediate files created during compilation (Default: off)
-shared-intel
Causes Intel-provided libraries to be linked in dynamically (Default: all libraries linked statically except libguide)
-shared-libgcc
Links the GNU libgcc library dynamically. (Default: off)
-static-intel
Causes Intel-provided libraries to be linked in statically (Default: all libraries linked statically except libguide)
-static-libgcc
Links the GNU libgcc library statically. (Default: off)
-std or -stand
Same as -std03 or -stand f03. Note that this is a change from previous versions. (Default: off)
-std03 or -stand f03
Tells the compiler to issue warnings for source syntax that does not conform to the Fortran 2003 standard. (Default: off)
-tcheck [<mode>]
Indicates the method of analysis to be performed for OpenMP threaded applications (Default: off)
-tcollect
Inserts instrumentation probes calling the Intel® Trace Collector API (Default: off)
-xO
Specifies that the compiler is to generate SSE3, SSE2 and SSE instructions and to optimize for the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor and Intel® Xeon® processor with SSE3. Generated code should operate on processors not made by Intel that support SSE3, SSE2 and SSE instruction sets, such as some AMD* processors. This value does not enable some optimizations enabled in the S, T, and P processor values. (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off)
-xS
Specifies that the compiler is to generate SSE4 Vectorizing Compiler and Media Accelerators instructions for future Intel processors that support the instructions. The compiler can also generate SSSE3, SSE3, SSE2, and SSE instructions and it can optimize for future Intel processors. (IA-32 and Intel® 64 only, default: off)

Deprecated and Removed Command Line Options

For information on command line options that are either deprecated (still functional but to be removed in a future version) or removed (no longer supported), please refer to the section Compiler Options > Deprecated and Removed Compiler Options in the on-disk documentation.

Meaning of -fast Changed

The -fast option is a shorter way of specifying a set of options that generally improve run-time performance. As documented, the set of options may change over time. In version 10.0, -fast sets -xT, whereas in earlier versions it set -xP. If this change is not appropriate for you, you must specify the individual options you want instead of using -fast. Please see the Compiler Options section of the on-disk documentation for further information.

Meaning of -stand Changed

In version 10.0, the meaning of the -stand option, when specified without a following keyword, is changed to mean -stand f03, or checking for conformance to Fortran 2003. You can select checking against Fortran 90 or Fortran 95 by specifying -stand f90 or -stand f95. -std is an alternate spelling of -stand. Note that the Intel® Fortran Language Reference still highlights Fortran 2003 features as extensions to Fortran 95.

-xW Enabled by Default on Intel® 64 Systems

On Intel® 64 architecture systems, -xW is enabled by default; this has the effect of enabling vectorization and you may see vectorization report messages displayed where you did not when using previous releases. To disable the vectorization report messages, use -diag-disable vec. You may still specify alternate options such as -xP or -axT.

Alternate Command Line Options

Many command line options have an older spelling where underscores (“_”) instead of hyphens (“-“) connect the words in the option name. The older spelling is still a valid alternate option name.

Fortran 2003 Behaviors

Fortran 2003 defines behaviors for language features that were either extensions to previous standards or left unspecified in earlier standards. While version 10.0 of the Intel Fortran Compiler does not yet support all of Fortran 2003, the compiler now selects the Fortran 2003 behavior in some cases where earlier compiler versions chose a different behavior. In some other cases, the compiler defaults have not yet changed. These are described below.

Binary, octal and hexadecimal constants

In Fortran 95, binary, octal and hexadecimal constants ("BOZ constants") were allowed in DATA statements only and were restricted to initializing scalar integer variables. As an extension to Fortran 95, the Intel Fortran Compiler allowed BOZ constants in any context, with the type interpretation determined by the context. Fortran 2003 expands the use of BOZ constants permitting them to initialize any numeric type and in arguments to the INT, REAL, DBLE and CMPLX intrinsics.

The Fortran 2003 semantics for use of BOZ constants match the previous extended implementation of Intel Fortran except for the case of a BOZ constant as an argument to INT, REAL, DBLE and CMPLX. Fortran 2003 specifies that in these contexts a BOZ constant is interpreted as a binary value which is interpreted directly as the data type returned by the intrinsic, whereas the previous Intel Fortran interpretation was to treat the BOZ constant as a signed integer value which was then converted.

For example:

print *, real(Z'40490FDB')

with the old behavior (-assume old_boz) prints 1.0785300E+09 and with the new behavior (-assume noold_boz) prints 3.141593.

In version 10.0, the default behavior for Intel Fortran is that of Fortran 2003, to transfer the binary value without conversion. If your application needs the old behavior, compile with the option -assume old_boz.

Default I/O unit *

In the Intel Fortran Compiler, I/O unit * and the implied units used by the ACCEPT, PRINT and TYPE statements, are by default associated with unit numbers distinct from those that could be specified in an OPEN statement, such as unit 5 or 6. Fortran 2003 requires that the programmer be able to OPEN these default units, which is incompatible with the current Intel Fortran behavior.

In version 10.0, the -assume [no]old_unit_star compile command option has been added to control this behavior. The default, -assume old_unit_star, retains the current and past behavior with unit * being distinct from units 5 and 6. If you want to use the Fortran 2003 behavior, or if you will be using the Fortran 2003 intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV and its defined constants INPUT_UNIT and OUTPUT_UNIT, specify -assume noold_unit_star to have unit * (and ACCEPT, PRINT and TYPE) use units 5 (input) and 6 (output).

The default for this behavior may change in a future release.

RECL= unit for unformatted files

In version 10.0, as in versions 8.x and 9.x of Intel Fortran, when opening a file for unformatted I/O, the value specified for the RECL= keyword in OPEN is in four-byte units, the size of a default integer. Previous Fortran standards have said that the RECL= unit was "implementation-dependent", but Fortran 2003 "recommends" that it be single bytes. To specify that the RECL= unit for unformatted I/O be bytes, use the existing compiler option -assume byterecl. You must also use this option if your application uses the FILE_STORAGE_SIZE named constant from the intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV.

New Fortran 2003 Features

The following features from the Fortran 2003 standard have been added since the initial release of version 9.1. Some of these features first appeared in updates to version 9.1. For additional details, please see the Intel® Fortran Language Reference.

Additional Language Features

For details on the following new language features, please see the Intel® Fortran Language Reference

New Environment Variables to Specify Default Record Lengths

Two new environment variables are available to change the run-time behavior of applications: FORT_FMT_RECL and FORT_UFMT_RECL.

FORT_FMT_RECL is used to specify a default RECL (Record Length) value for all Fortran units opened for formatted I/O. If defined with an unsigned decimal integer value, the environment variable value is used as if that value had been specified for RECL= for OPEN when the RECORDTYPE is not 'FIXED'. The most common use of this is to change the line length for list-directed output, which has a default of 80 columns.

FORT_UFMT_RECL is used to specify a default RECL (Record Length) value for all Fortran units opened for unformatted I/O. If defined with an unsigned decimal integer value, the environment variable value is used as if that value had been specified for RECL= for OPEN when the RECORDTYPE is not 'FIXED'. The most common use of this is to change the maximum segment length for files opened with RECORDTYPE='SEGMENTED', which has a default of 2040 bytes.

KMP_AFFINITY Environment Variable for OpenMP* Applications

The KMP_AFFINITY environment variable can be used in an OpenMP* application to specify how execution threads should be bound to processors on the system. This setting's effect is to bind each thread, in order of creation, in a round-robin fashion to a processor core in the system for the duration of the program. The value of KMP_AFFINITY should be of the form:

compact,<level>

where <level> is a non-negative integer. For example:

compact,1

The argument <level> specifies the gap between successive thread's bound cores in the machine topology map, which is represented as a binary tree. A level of zero indicates that threads will be bound to successive threading contexts for processors which have Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology enabled, or successive processors if not. The levels increase by one level from threading contexts, to cores, to packages (processors) in sequence. This setting is supported for processors supplied by Intel Corporation only on systems where the required operating system support for thread binding is present.

Improved Parallelizer and Vectorizer

This version features a complete redesign of the optimizer that integrates parallelization (IA-32, Intel® 64 and IA-64) and vectorization (IA-32 and Intel® 64) at O2 and O3 optimization levels with memory and loop optimizations.

Performance can be substantially improved by:

New and Enhanced Optimization Reports for Advanced Loop Transformations

Loop Transformation (HLO) Optimization reports tell you why the compiler was unable to apply loop interchange transformations on a set of loops and suggests loop interchange if the reported bottlenecks can be removed by source changes.   These reports have been enhanced to provide more detailed information and to be easier to understand.

Static Verifier

Static Verifier is a new compiler feature which performs static analysis of a program across multiple source files. It can detect different kinds of defects and doubtful or inconsistent uses of language features in user code and report them according to their severity level. Static Verifier understands C/C++ and Fortran code and can also perform analysis of OpenMP directives.

Fortran 2003 Feature Summary

The Intel Fortran Compiler supports many features that are new to the latest revision of the Fortran standard, Fortran 2003. Additional Fortran 2003 features will appear in future versions. Fortran 2003 features supported by the current compiler include:


 
In this release, when Static Verifier is enabled the linker is not invoked so an executable or static/dynamic link library is not produced, object files that were produced as a result of invocation of Static Verifier are not valid and should not be used for generating of real executable or static/dynamic link libraries. The current usage model is that Static Verifier is added as an alternate build option to produce a diagnostic report.

Static Verifier cannot be used in conjunction with cross-file interprocedural optimization (/Qipo).

For more information, please refer to the section on Building Applications > Error Handling > Handling Compile Time Errors > using Static Verification Diagnostic Options in the on-disk documentation.

System Requirements

Processor Terminology

Intel compilers support three platforms: general combinations of processor and operating system type. This section explains the terms that Intel uses to describe the platforms in its documentation, installation procedures and support site.

IA-32
IA-32 (Intel Architecture, 32-bit) refers to systems based on 32-bit processors supporting at least the Pentium® II instruction set, (for example, Intel® Core™ processor or Intel® Xeon® processor), or processors from other manufacturers supporting the same instruction set, running a 32-bit operating system ("Linux x86").
Intel® 64
Intel® 64 (formerly Intel® EM64T) refers to systems based on IA-32 processors which have 64-bit architectural extensions, (for example, Intel® Core™2 processor or Intel® Xeon® processor), running a 64-bit operating system ("Linux x86_64"). If the system is running a 32-bit version of the Linux operating system, then IA-32 applies instead. Systems based on the AMD* Athlon64* and Opteron* processors running a 64-bit operating system are also supported by Intel compilers for Intel® 64-based applications.
IA-64
Refers to systems based on the Intel Itanium® 2 processor running a 64-bit operating system.

Native and Cross-Platform Development

The term "native" refers to building an application that will run on the same platform that it was built on, for example, building on IA-32 to run on IA-32. The term "cross-platform" or "cross-compilation" refers to building an application on a platform type different from the one on which it will be run, for example, building on IA-32 to run on IA-64. Not all combinations of cross-platform development are supported and some combinations may require installation of optional tools and libraries.

The following list describes the supported combinations of compilation host (system on which you build the application) and application target (system on which the application runs).

IA-32 Host
Supported target: IA-32
Intel® 64 Host
Supported targets: IA-32 and Intel® 64
IA-64 Host
Supported target: IA-64

Note: Development for a target different from the host may require optional library components to be installed from your Linux Distribution.

Note: Intel® Cluster OpenMP* is a separately licensed feature and has different system requirements from that of the compilers. Please refer to the Intel Cluster OpenMP documentation for further details.

Requirements to develop IA-32 applications

Requirements to Develop Applications for Intel® 64 Architecture Systems or for AMD* Opteron* Processors

Requirements to Develop IA-64 Applications

Note on gcc Versions

The Intel compilers are tested with a number of different Linux distributions, with different versions of gcc. If you are using any of gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.3, 3.3, 3.2, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, you can expect to be successful. However the version of binutils can impact your experience: later ones are generally better and we recommend using at least 2.14. Some Linux distributions may contain header files different from those we have tested, which may cause problems. The version of glibc you use must be consistent with the version of gcc in use.

Notes:

Installation

Please see the separate Installation Guide for information on installing the compiler and setting up the compiler environment. The default installation directories, referred to elsewhere in this document as <install-dir> and <idb-install-dir>, are:

Known Issues

Binary Incompatibility for OpenMP Applications

Programs compiled with the Intel Compiler version 9.0 using the -openmp switch may not run after installing the Intel Compiler version 10.0. For such programs, the loader may exit at run time with an error message about undefined symbols beginning with the string _intel (for example, _intel_fast_memset). If this occurs, please recompile the executable using the Intel Compiler version 10.0 and the loader error message should disappear.

Installation Warning for RPM 4.0.2 and RPM 4.1

RPM 4.0.2 cannot install to a non-default directory. This has been resolved in RPM 4.0.3. RPM 4.1 cannot install to a non-default directory. This has been resolved in RPM 4.11 to 4.2.

Segmentation Violation with Static Link to libpthreads

Applications built with libpthreads.a statically linked, (libpthreads.a is used by default when -static is used), may fail with a segmentation violation on some versions of Linux when the applications use more than 2GB of stack space. This is a known limitation of Linuxthreads. If you encounter this problem, link libpthreads dynamically. As an alternative, on Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, you can install the nptl-devel package and pass "-I/usr/include/nptl -L/usr/lib/nptl" on the ifort command line. This will create a statically-linked binary which will run under nptl only, but which does not have the stack size limitation.

OpenMP limitations

IA-64 Floating Point Software Assistance Handler 1.12 Error on Red Hat Linux 7.2

On IA-64 systems, the Floating Point Software Assistance handler (FPSWA), part of the system BIOS, performs software completion of floating point operations that generate exceptional values such as NaNs and Infinities. Version 1.12 of the FPSWA has an error which can be revealed on Red Hat Linux 7.2 systems as an unexpected segmentation violation fault when an application runs. Intel is not aware that this issue affects other distributions or versions of Linux on IA-64 systems.

To correct this problem, upgrade the system BIOS to one that includes FPSWA version 1.18 or later. Please contact your system manufacturer for BIOS update information.

gprel relocation Error Messages on IA-64 Linux Systems

On IA-64 systems running Linux, when the -shared switch is used to create a Dynamic Shared Object (.so), there may be some "relocation against dynamic symbol" messages generated during the ld phase, similar to:

/usr/bin/ld: for_init.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol for__segv_default_msg
/usr/bin/ld: for_init.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol for__l_fpe_mask
/usr/bin/ld: for_init.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol for__l_undcnt
...

To fix this problem, add the switches -i_dynamic and -nofor_main to the command line. As of version 9.0, specifying -shared will automatically set -i_dynamic and -nofor_main.

-ipo_obj option is no longer supported

The -ipo_obj option, which forced generation of direct object code, is no longer supported. If the option is specified, a warning is given and the effect is as if -ip was specified instead.

-relax no longer passed to linker on IA-64 systems

As of version 9.0, the compiler driver no longer passes the -relax switch to the linker on IA-64 systems, as this conflicts with the -r option. The -relax option is not needed as it is the default when using binutils 2.11.90.0.27 or later - 2.14 is recommended. If you must use an older binutils and wish to specify the -relax option, use -Xlinker -relax on the compile command which invokes the linker.

ld warning about libunwind.so.7 on SLES 10

When applications are built using the Intel compiler on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, you may see a warning similar to the following:

ld: warning: libunwind.so.7, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/ia64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../..//libgcc_s.so, may conflict with libunwind.so.6

A workaround is to add the following line to ifort.cfg:

-L /usr/lib

This issue is expected to be resolved in a future release of the Intel compiler.

Limited debug information with automatic CPU dispatching (-ax*)

Compilation using -ax{W|N|B|P} results in two copies of generated code for each function. One for IA-32 generic code and one for CPU specific code. The symbol for each function then refers to an Auto CPU Dispatch routine that decides at run-time which one of the generated code sections to execute. Debugger breakpoints that are set on these functions by name cause the application to stop in the dispatch routine. This may cause unexpected behavior when debugging. This issue may be addressed in a future version of the Intel Debugger and Compilers.

Cannot debug or view traceback for IA-32 programs built without -fp

Compilation using -fp specifies that the IA-32 EBP register be used as a frame pointer rather than a general purpose register. Debuggers and traceback handlers may not be able to properly unwind through a stack that contains a call to a function that is compiled without -fp in effect. If you compile with -g or -O0, -fp is implicitly enabled, but not if you specify a higher optimization level explicitly (such as -O2). If you intend to use the debugger or traceback on an application, and are using some level of optimization higher than -O0, you should also specify -fp to ensure that the debugger and traceback handler can use frame pointers.

GNU assembler may not recognize generated code

Older versions of the GNU Assembler may not be able to process assembly code generated by compiling with the -[a]xP, T or S options. Use binutils version 2.17.50.0.15 or later if this is an issue for you.

Use idb with Extended Debug Information

If you use the -debug keywords inline_debug_info, semantic_stepping, variable_locations or extended, you should use the Intel Debugger (idb), as other debuggers may not understand the extended information and may behave unpredictably. We are working with the developers of other debuggers towards their adding support for the extended debug information.

-auto_ilp32 Option Not Supported

The -auto_ilp32 option which specifies that that an application cannot exceed a 32-bit address space, and which is mentioned in the documentation, is not supported.

Enabling Run-Time Checks May Also Enable Compile-Time Checks

In some cases, enabling run-time checks using the -check or -C option may cause the compiler to issue diagnostics for the requested condition at compile-time, if it can be diagnosed then. For example, an array bounds violation with a constant subscript may result in a compile-time error if -check bounds or -CB is specified.

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Submitting Issues

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        > ifort -V
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Resolved Issues

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Compiler Error Source Reducer (CESR)

Compiler Error Source Reducer (CESR) is a set of utilities which are useful individually or collectively in gathering, reducing, pinpointing, protecting, documenting, and bundling test cases comprised of C/C++ or Fortran source code. It can be helpful if you have a large application for which you want to extract a small test case for submission to Intel® Premier Support. CESR can be downloaded from Intel® Registration Center Product Downloads. Select your product and in the version dropdown, select CESR. CESR is unsupported and should be considered experimental, but we welcome your feedback on it through Intel® Premier Support. CESR requires prior installation of Python 2.2 or newer.

Documentation

You can view the Intel compiler and related HTML-based documentation with your Web browser. You should use a Web browser that supports JavaScript (such as Firefox*), so it can which provide full navigation, search, index look-up, and hyperlink capabilities amongst the online help files.

The documentation is installed in the <install-dir>/doc directory. An HTML index document can be found at <install-dir>/doc/Doc_Index.htm . The Intel® Debugger Manual is provided in HTML form in the Intel® Debugger doc directory.

Viewing Manpages

The ifort(1) manpage provides a list of command-line options and related information for the ifort compiler command. To display the ifort(1) manpage, type the following command after you set up your environment by using a source command to execute the <install-dir>/bin/ifortvars.*sh file:

$ man ifort

The man command provides single keys or key combinations that let you scroll through the displayed content, search for a string, jump to a location, and perform other functions. For example, type the z to view the next screen or w to view the previous screen. To obtain help about the man command, type the h key; when you are done viewing help, type the q key to return to the displayed manpage. To search, type / character followed by the search string (/string) and press Enter. After viewing the man command text, type q to return to the shell command prompt.

Viewing Documentation

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