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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#***************************************************************************
+#                                  _   _ ____  _
+#  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+#                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+#                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+#                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+#
+# You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+#
+# This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.
+#
+###########################################################################
+#
+# Scan man page(s) and detect some simple and yet common formatting mistakes.
+#
+# Output all deviances to stderr.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# we may get the dir roots pointed out
+my @manpages=@ARGV;
+my $errors = 0;
+
+sub scanmanpage {
+    my ($file) = @_;
+
+    print "Check $file\n";
+    open(M, "<$file") || die "no such file: $file";
+    my $line = 1;
+    while(<M>) {
+        if($_ =~ /^\'/) {
+            print STDERR "$file:$line line starts with single quote!\n";
+            $errors++;
+        }
+        if($_ =~ /\\f([BI])(.*)/) {
+            my ($format, $rest) = ($1, $2);
+            if($rest !~ /\\fP/) {
+                print STDERR "$file:$line missing \\f${format} terminator!\n";
+                $errors++;
+            }
+        }
+        $line++;
+    }
+    close(M);
+}
+
+
+for my $m (@manpages) {
+    scanmanpage($m);
+}
+
+exit $errors;