9bdb5158d6
In an e-mail Brian Walden wrote that: "GWRL stands for Gottfried W. R. Luderer, the author of cut(1) and paste(1), probably around 1978. Those came either from PWB or USG, as he worked with, or for, Berkley Tague. Thus they made their way into AT&T commercial UNIX, first into System III and the into System V, and that's why they are missing from early BSD releases as they didn't get into Research UNIX until the 8th Edition." So update the HISTORY and AUTHORS sections for cut(1) and paste(1). [1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html Reviewed by: pauamma, imp Obtained from: OpenBSD (in partial) MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36048
159 lines
4.4 KiB
Groff
159 lines
4.4 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
|
|
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
|
|
.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
|
|
.\" Engineers, Inc.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
|
|
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
|
|
.\" are met:
|
|
.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
|
|
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
|
|
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
|
|
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
|
|
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
|
|
.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
|
|
.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
|
|
.\" without specific prior written permission.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
|
|
.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
|
|
.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
|
|
.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
|
|
.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
|
|
.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
|
|
.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
|
|
.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
|
|
.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
|
|
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
|
|
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
|
|
.\" $FreeBSD$
|
|
.\"
|
|
.Dd November 6, 2022
|
|
.Dt PASTE 1
|
|
.Os
|
|
.Sh NAME
|
|
.Nm paste
|
|
.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
|
|
.Sh SYNOPSIS
|
|
.Nm
|
|
.Op Fl s
|
|
.Op Fl d Ar list
|
|
.Ar
|
|
.Sh DESCRIPTION
|
|
The
|
|
.Nm
|
|
utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
|
|
replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
|
|
character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
|
|
If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
|
|
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
|
|
of empty lines.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The options are as follows:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Fl
|
|
.It Fl d Ar list
|
|
Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
|
|
characters instead of the default tab.
|
|
The characters in
|
|
.Ar list
|
|
are used circularly, i.e., when
|
|
.Ar list
|
|
is exhausted the first character from
|
|
.Ar list
|
|
is reused.
|
|
This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
|
|
or the last line in each file (using the
|
|
.Fl s
|
|
option) is displayed, at which
|
|
time
|
|
.Nm
|
|
begins selecting characters from the beginning of
|
|
.Ar list
|
|
again.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The following special characters can also be used in list:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width flag -compact
|
|
.It Li \en
|
|
newline character
|
|
.It Li \et
|
|
tab character
|
|
.It Li \e\e
|
|
backslash character
|
|
.It Li \e0
|
|
Empty string (not a null character).
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
|
|
character itself.
|
|
.It Fl s
|
|
Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
|
|
order.
|
|
The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
|
|
file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
|
|
the
|
|
.Fl d
|
|
option.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Sq Fl
|
|
is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
|
|
input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
|
|
for each instance of
|
|
.Sq Fl .
|
|
.Sh EXIT STATUS
|
|
.Ex -std
|
|
.Sh EXAMPLES
|
|
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl "ls | paste - - -"
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl "paste -s -d '\et\en' myfile"
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Number the lines in a file, similar to
|
|
.Xr nl 1 :
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl "sed = myfile | paste - -"
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Create a colon-separated list of directories named
|
|
.Pa bin ,
|
|
suitable
|
|
for use in the
|
|
.Ev PATH
|
|
environment variable:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl "find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -"
|
|
.Sh SEE ALSO
|
|
.Xr cut 1 ,
|
|
.Xr lam 1
|
|
.Sh STANDARDS
|
|
The
|
|
.Nm
|
|
utility is expected to be
|
|
.St -p1003.2
|
|
compatible.
|
|
.Sh HISTORY
|
|
A
|
|
.Nm
|
|
command first appeared in
|
|
.At III
|
|
and has been available since
|
|
.Bx 4.3 Reno .
|
|
.Sh AUTHORS
|
|
.An -nosplit
|
|
The original Bell Labs version was written by
|
|
.An Gottfried W. R. Luderer
|
|
and the
|
|
.Bx
|
|
version by
|
|
.An Adam S. Moskowitz
|
|
and
|
|
.An Marciano Pitargue .
|