1 .\" $NetBSD: paste.1,v 1.9 2013/04/07 17:43:01 wiz Exp $
3 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
4 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
6 .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
7 .\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
10 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
11 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
13 .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
14 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
15 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
16 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
17 .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
18 .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
19 .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
20 .\" without specific prior written permission.
22 .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
23 .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
24 .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
25 .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
26 .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
27 .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
28 .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
29 .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
30 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
31 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
34 .\" from: @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
41 .Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
50 utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
51 replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
52 character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
53 If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
54 still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
57 The options are as follows:
60 Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
61 characters instead of the default tab.
64 are used circularly, i.e., when
66 is exhausted the first character from
69 This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
70 or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which
73 begins selecting characters from the beginning of
77 The following special characters can also be used in list:
79 .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
87 Empty string (not a null character).
90 Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
93 Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
95 The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
96 file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
102 is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
103 input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
114 utility is expected to be