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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+## small script to stirp the <URL:...> tags from 
+## manpages generated from docbook2man.  we'll leave
+## the <URL:ftp://...> and <URL:mailto:...> links for now
+
+while (<STDIN>) {
+
+	chomp ($_);
+	$_ =~ s/\s*<URL:.*html.*>\s*//g;
+	print "$_\n";
+
+}
+exit 0;