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                     40: .Dd July 27, 1991
                     41: .Dt PASTE 1
                     42: .Os
                     43: .Sh NAME
                     44: .Nm paste
                     45: .Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
                     46: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     47: .Nm paste
                     48: .Op Fl s
                     49: .Op Fl d Ar list
1.3       aaron      50: .Ar file Op Ar ...
1.1       deraadt    51: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     52: The
                     53: .Nm paste
                     54: utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
                     55: replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
                     56: character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
                     57: If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
                     58: still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
                     59: of empty lines.
                     60: .Pp
                     61: The options are as follows:
1.6     ! aaron      62: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.5       aaron      63: .It Fl d Ar list
1.1       deraadt    64: Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
                     65: characters instead of the default tab.
                     66: The characters in
                     67: .Ar list
                     68: are used circularly, i.e., when
                     69: .Ar list
                     70: is exhausted the first character from
                     71: .Ar list
                     72: is reused.
                     73: This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
1.3       aaron      74: or the last line in each file (using the
                     75: .Fl s
                     76: option) is displayed, at which
1.1       deraadt    77: time
                     78: .Nm paste
                     79: begins selecting characters from the beginning of
                     80: .Ar list
                     81: again.
                     82: .Pp
                     83: The following special characters can also be used in list:
                     84: .Pp
                     85: .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
                     86: .It Li \en
                     87: newline character
                     88: .It Li \et
                     89: tab character
                     90: .It Li \e\e
                     91: backslash character
                     92: .It Li \e0
1.3       aaron      93: empty string (not a null character)
1.1       deraadt    94: .El
                     95: .Pp
                     96: Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
                     97: character itself.
                     98: .It Fl s
                     99: Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
                    100: order.
                    101: The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
                    102: file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
1.3       aaron     103: the
                    104: .Fl d
                    105: option.
1.1       deraadt   106: .El
                    107: .Pp
                    108: If
1.5       aaron     109: .Dq -
1.1       deraadt   110: is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
                    111: input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
                    112: for each instance of
1.5       aaron     113: .Dq - .
1.1       deraadt   114: .Pp
                    115: The
                    116: .Nm paste
1.3       aaron     117: utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
1.1       deraadt   118: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    119: .Xr cut 1
                    120: .Sh STANDARDS
                    121: The
                    122: .Nm paste
                    123: utility is expected to be
                    124: .St -p1003.2
                    125: compatible.