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                     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
1.3       aaron      49: .Ar file Op Ar ...
1.1       deraadt    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
1.4     ! aaron      62: .It Fl d  Ar list
1.1       deraadt    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)
1.3       aaron      73: or the last line in each file (using the
                     74: .Fl s
                     75: option) is displayed, at which
1.1       deraadt    76: time
                     77: .Nm paste
                     78: begins selecting characters from the beginning of
                     79: .Ar list
                     80: again.
                     81: .Pp
                     82: The following special characters can also be used in list:
                     83: .Pp
                     84: .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
                     85: .It Li \en
                     86: newline character
                     87: .It Li \et
                     88: tab character
                     89: .It Li \e\e
                     90: backslash character
                     91: .It Li \e0
1.3       aaron      92: empty string (not a null character)
1.1       deraadt    93: .El
                     94: .Pp
                     95: Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
                     96: character itself.
                     97: .It Fl s
                     98: Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
                     99: order.
                    100: The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
                    101: file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
1.3       aaron     102: the
                    103: .Fl d
                    104: option.
1.1       deraadt   105: .El
                    106: .Pp
                    107: If
                    108: .Ql Fl
                    109: is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
                    110: input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
                    111: for each instance of
                    112: .Ql Fl .
                    113: .Pp
                    114: The
                    115: .Nm paste
1.3       aaron     116: utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
1.1       deraadt   117: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    118: .Xr cut 1
                    119: .Sh STANDARDS
                    120: The
                    121: .Nm paste
                    122: utility is expected to be
                    123: .St -p1003.2
                    124: compatible.