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diff --git a/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d76ce5d --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: paste.1,v 1.9 2013/04/07 17:43:01 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics +.\" Engineers, Inc. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt PASTE 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm paste +.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl s +.Op Fl d Ar list +.Ar file ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, +replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab +character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. +If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files +still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source +of empty lines. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Fl +.It Fl d Ar list +Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline +characters instead of the default tab. +The characters in +.Ar list +are used circularly, i.e., when +.Ar list +is exhausted the first character from +.Ar list +is reused. +This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation) +or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which +time +.Nm +begins selecting characters from the beginning of +.Ar list +again. +.Pp +The following special characters can also be used in list: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width flag -compact +.It Li \en +newline character +.It Li \et +tab character +.It Li \e\e +backslash character +.It Li \e0 +Empty string (not a null character). +.El +.Pp +Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the +character itself. +.It Fl s +Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line +order. +The newline character of every line except the last line in each input +file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by +the -d option. +.El +.Pp +If +.Ql Fl +is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard +input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, +for each instance of +.Ql Fl . +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cut 1 , +.Xr join 1 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm +utility is expected to be +.St -p1003.2 +compatible. |