Return to paste.1 CVS log

Up to [local] / src / usr.bin / paste

Annotation of src/usr.bin/paste/paste.1, Revision 1.1

1.1     ! deraadt     1: .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.
        !             3: .\"
        !             4: .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
        !             5: .\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
        !             6: .\" Engineers, Inc.
        !             7: .\"
        !             8: .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
        !             9: .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
        !            10: .\" are met:
        !            11: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
        !            12: .\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
        !            13: .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
        !            14: .\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
        !            15: .\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
        !            16: .\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
        !            17: .\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
        !            18: .\"    This product includes software developed by the University of
        !            19: .\"    California, Berkeley and its contributors.
        !            20: .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
        !            21: .\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
        !            22: .\"    without specific prior written permission.
        !            23: .\"
        !            24: .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
        !            25: .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
        !            26: .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
        !            27: .\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
        !            28: .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
        !            29: .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
        !            30: .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
        !            31: .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
        !            32: .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
        !            33: .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
        !            34: .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
        !            35: .\"
        !            36: .\"    from: @(#)paste.1       5.6 (Berkeley) 7/27/91
        !            37: .\"    $Id: paste.1,v 1.2 1993/08/01 07:29:57 mycroft Exp $
        !            38: .\"
        !            39: .Dd July 27, 1991
        !            40: .Dt PASTE 1
        !            41: .Os
        !            42: .Sh NAME
        !            43: .Nm paste
        !            44: .Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
        !            45: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            46: .Nm paste
        !            47: .Op Fl s
        !            48: .Op Fl d Ar list
        !            49: .Ar file ...
        !            50: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            51: The
        !            52: .Nm paste
        !            53: utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
        !            54: replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
        !            55: character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
        !            56: If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
        !            57: still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
        !            58: of empty lines.
        !            59: .Pp
        !            60: The options are as follows:
        !            61: .Bl -tag -width Fl
        !            62: .It Fl d  Ar list
        !            63: Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
        !            64: characters instead of the default tab.
        !            65: The characters in
        !            66: .Ar list
        !            67: are used circularly, i.e., when
        !            68: .Ar list
        !            69: is exhausted the first character from
        !            70: .Ar list
        !            71: is reused.
        !            72: This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
        !            73: or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which
        !            74: time
        !            75: .Nm paste
        !            76: begins selecting characters from the beginning of
        !            77: .Ar list
        !            78: again.
        !            79: .Pp
        !            80: The following special characters can also be used in list:
        !            81: .Pp
        !            82: .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
        !            83: .It Li \en
        !            84: newline character
        !            85: .It Li \et
        !            86: tab character
        !            87: .It Li \e\e
        !            88: backslash character
        !            89: .It Li \e0
        !            90: Empty string (not a null character).
        !            91: .El
        !            92: .Pp
        !            93: Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
        !            94: character itself.
        !            95: .It Fl s
        !            96: Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
        !            97: order.
        !            98: The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
        !            99: file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
        !           100: the -d option.
        !           101: .El
        !           102: .Pp
        !           103: If
        !           104: .Ql Fl
        !           105: is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
        !           106: input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
        !           107: for each instance of
        !           108: .Ql Fl .
        !           109: .Pp
        !           110: The
        !           111: .Nm paste
        !           112: utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
        !           113: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !           114: .Xr cut 1
        !           115: .Sh STANDARDS
        !           116: The
        !           117: .Nm paste
        !           118: utility is expected to be
        !           119: .St -p1003.2
        !           120: compatible.