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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/paste.1p.txt b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/paste.1p.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6f0ba0 --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/paste.1p.txt @@ -0,0 +1,268 @@ +paste(P) paste(P) + + + + + +NAME + paste - merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files + +SYNOPSIS + paste [-s][-d list] file... + +DESCRIPTION + The paste utility shall concatenate the corresponding + lines of the given input files, and write the resulting + lines to standard output. + + The default operation of paste shall concatenate the + corresponding lines of the input files. The <newline> of + every line except the line from the last input file + shall be replaced with a <tab>. + + If an end-of-file condition is detected on one or more + input files, but not all input files, paste shall behave + as though empty lines were read from the files on which + end-of-file was detected, unless the -s option is speci- + fied. + +OPTIONS + The paste utility shall conform to the Base Definitions + volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility + Syntax Guidelines. + + The following options shall be supported: + + -d list + Unless a backslash character appears in list, + each character in list is an element specifying a + delimiter character. If a backslash character + appears in list, the backslash character and one + or more characters following it are an element + specifying a delimiter character as described + below. These elements specify one or more delim- + iters to use, instead of the default <tab>, to + replace the <newline> of the input lines. The + elements in list shall be used circularly; that + is, when the list is exhausted the first element + from the list is reused. When the -s option is + specified: + + The last <newline> in a file shall not be modi- + fied. + + The delimiter shall be reset to the first element + of list after each file operand is processed. + + When the -s option is not specified: + + The <newline>s in the file specified by the last + file operand shall not be modified. + + The delimiter shall be reset to the first element + of list each time a line is processed from each + file. + + If a backslash character appears in list, it and the + character following it shall be used to represent the + following delimiter characters: + + \n <newline>. + + \t <tab>. + + \\ Backslash character. + + \0 Empty string (not a null character). If '\0' is + immediately followed by the character 'x' , the + character 'X' , or any character defined by the + LC_CTYPE digit keyword (see the Base Definitions + volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 7, + Locale), the results are unspecified. + + + If any other characters follow the backslash, the + results are unspecified. + + -s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate + input file in command line order. The <newline> + of every line except the last line in each input + file shall be replaced with the <tab>, unless + otherwise specified by the -d option. + + +OPERANDS + The following operand shall be supported: + + file A pathname of an input file. If '-' is specified + for one or more of the files, the standard input + shall be used; the standard input shall be read + one line at a time, circularly, for each instance + of '-' . Implementations shall support pasting of + at least 12 file operands. + + +STDIN + The standard input shall be used only if one or more + file operands is '-' . See the INPUT FILES section. + +INPUT FILES + The input files shall be text files, except that line + lengths shall be unlimited. + +ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES + The following environment variables shall affect the + execution of paste: + + LANG Provide a default value for the internationaliza- + tion variables that are unset or null. (See the + Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, + Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for + the precedence of internationalization variables + used to determine the values of locale cate- + gories.) + + LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the + values of all the other internationalization + variables. + + LC_CTYPE + Determine the locale for the interpretation of + sequences of bytes of text data as characters + (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi- + byte characters in arguments and input files). + + LC_MESSAGES + Determine the locale that should be used to + affect the format and contents of diagnostic mes- + sages written to standard error. + + NLSPATH + Determine the location of message catalogs for + the processing of LC_MESSAGES . + + +ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS + Default. + +STDOUT + Concatenated lines of input files shall be separated by + the <tab> (or other characters under the control of the + -d option) and terminated by a <newline>. + +STDERR + The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic + messages. + +OUTPUT FILES + None. + +EXTENDED DESCRIPTION + None. + +EXIT STATUS + The following exit values shall be returned: + + 0 Successful completion. + + >0 An error occurred. + + +CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS + If one or more input files cannot be opened when the -s + option is not specified, a diagnostic message shall be + written to standard error, but no output is written to + standard output. If the -s option is specified, the + paste utility shall provide the default behavior + described in Utility Description Defaults . + + The following sections are informative. + +APPLICATION USAGE + When the escape sequences of the list option-argument + are used in a shell script, they must be quoted; other- + wise, the shell treats the '\' as a special character. + + Conforming applications should only use the specific + backslash escaped delimiters presented in this volume of + IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. Historical implementations treat + '\x' , where 'x' is not in this list, as 'x' , but + future implementations are free to expand this list to + recognize other common escapes similar to those accepted + by printf and other standard utilities. + + Most of the standard utilities work on text files. The + cut utility can be used to turn files with arbitrary + line lengths into a set of text files containing the + same data. The paste utility can be used to create (or + recreate) files with arbitrary line lengths. For exam- + ple, if file contains long lines: + + + cut -b 1-500 -n file > file1 + cut -b 501- -n file > file2 + + creates file1 (a text file) with lines no longer than + 500 bytes (plus the <newline>) and file2 that contains + the remainder of the data from file. Note that file2 is + not a text file if there are lines in file that are + longer than 500 + {LINE_MAX} bytes. The original file + can be recreated from file1 and file2 using the command: + + + paste -d "\0" file1 file2 > file + + The commands: + + + paste -d "\0" ... + paste -d "" ... + + are not necessarily equivalent; the latter is not speci- + fied by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 and may + result in an error. The construct '\0' is used to mean + "no separator" because historical versions of paste did + not follow the syntax guidelines, and the command: + + + paste -d"" ... + + could not be handled properly by getopt(). + +EXAMPLES + Write out a directory in four columns: + + + ls | paste - - - - + + Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines: + + + paste -s -d "\t\n" file + +RATIONALE + None. + +FUTURE DIRECTIONS + None. + +SEE ALSO + Utility Description Defaults , cut , grep , pr + +COPYRIGHT + Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in + electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, + Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operat- + ing System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Speci- + fications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Insti- + tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and + The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between + this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group + Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard + is the referee document. The original Standard can be + obtained online at http://www.open- + group.org/unix/online.html . + + + +POSIX 2003 paste(P) |