sbase/paste.1
FRIGN e51a2e6d2f Use ISO-date-format in manpages
The one specified by mdoc is hard to read for non-native
speakers from countries which read the date day-first (like
Germany, Greece, North-Korea, Swamp,...).
This is also consistent with how we generally specify dates
at suckless.org.
2015-10-08 17:15:08 +02:00

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.Dd 2015-10-08
.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.