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lam(1) indicating that paste(1) is a standard way to do some of the same things. MFC after: 1 week
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124 lines
3.9 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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.\" Engineers, Inc.
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.\"
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd September 20, 2001
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.Dt PASTE 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm paste
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.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl s
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.Op Fl d Ar list
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.Ar
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
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replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
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character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
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If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
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still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
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of empty lines.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Fl
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.It Fl d Ar list
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Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
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characters instead of the default tab.
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The characters in
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.Ar list
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are used circularly, i.e., when
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.Ar list
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is exhausted the first character from
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.Ar list
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is reused.
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This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
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or the last line in each file (using the
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.Fl s
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option) is displayed, at which
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time
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.Nm
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begins selecting characters from the beginning of
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.Ar list
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again.
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.Pp
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The following special characters can also be used in list:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width flag -compact
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.It Li \en
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newline character
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.It Li \et
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tab character
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.It Li \e\e
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backslash character
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.It Li \e0
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Empty string (not a null character).
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.El
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.Pp
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Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
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character itself.
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.It Fl s
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Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
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order.
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The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
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file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
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the
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.Fl d
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option.
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.El
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.Pp
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If
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.Ql Fl
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is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
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input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
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for each instance of
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.Ql Fl .
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr cut 1 ,
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.Xr lam 1
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility is expected to be
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.St -p1003.2
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compatible.
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