Fix confusing example in paste(1)
Paste's man page contains an example for a reimplementation of nl(1). This example uses the command line sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' - - in order to concatenate consecutive lines with an intervening tab. However, the way the example uses the switches -s and -d and two `dash` input files is redundant. There are in fact two equivalent but simpler ways to achieve the desired result: sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' - uses the same style as the previous example, while sed = myfile | paste - - is arguably even simpler and illustrates the final sentence of the DESCRIPTION. Reviewed by: imp@ Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/163
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@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
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Number the lines in a file, similar to
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.Xr nl 1 :
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.Pp
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.Dl "sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\et\en' - -"
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.Dl "sed = myfile | paste - -"
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.Pp
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Create a colon-separated list of directories named
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.Pa bin ,
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