From 8790fe3058c83f624ca2155fb0dbaac23c641237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jocki84 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:22:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- usr.bin/paste/paste.1 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 index 8bd02dd47097..73b10fcd79b7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 +++ b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines: Number the lines in a file, similar to .Xr nl 1 : .Pp -.Dl "sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\et\en' - -" +.Dl "sed = myfile | paste - -" .Pp Create a colon-separated list of directories named .Pa bin ,