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School of Computing
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SHOWRGB

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: rgb 1.0.4
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NAME

showrgb - display an rgb color-name database

SYNOPSIS

showrgb [ database ]

DESCRIPTION

The showrgb program reads an rgb color-name database from a text file and converts it back to source form, printing the result to standard output. The default database is the one that X was built with, and may be overridden on the command line. Specify the database name without the .txt, .pag or .dir suffix.

FILES

/usr/share/X11/rgb: default database.

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