sbase/paste.1
FRIGN 57dc7b94b0 POSIX 2013 audit
Mostly manpage-shuffling according to the changes in the corrigendum,
wording changes and more idiomatic expressions.
All this is finished up by marking the POSIX 2013 conformant tools
with
.St -p1003.1-2013
which is not available in older mandoc builds or nroff, but which
reflects what we actually did, so who cares?

This is a huge step and it's not far until we can release sbase 0.1.
2015-03-27 17:25:22 +01:00

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.Dd March 27, 2015
.Dt PASTE 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm paste
.Nd merge lines of files in parallel or sequentially
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl s
.Op Fl d Ar list
.Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
reads single lines from each
.Ar file
and writes them into one line, replacing
.Sy \en
with
.Sy \et
except from the last
.Ar file .
This process is repeated until each
.Ar file
is starved, treating zero-reads as empty lines along the way.
.Pp
If
.Ar file
is '-',
.Nm
interprets it as stdin.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl d Ar list
Replace
.Sy \en
with escaped characters from
.Ar list
by cycling through it.
.It Fl s
Read each
.Ar file
sequentially instead of in parallel.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cut 1
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
utility is compliant with the
.St -p1003.1-2013
specification.