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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            22: .\"     @(#)paste.1    5.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
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        !            24: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            25: .Dt PASTE 1
        !            26: .Os BSD 4.4
        !            27: .Sh NAME
        !            28: .Nm paste
        !            29: .Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
        !            30: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            31: .Nm paste
        !            32: .Op Fl s
        !            33: .Op Fl d Ar list
        !            34: .Ar file ...
        !            35: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            36: The
        !            37: .Nm paste
        !            38: utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
        !            39: replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
        !            40: character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
        !            41: If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
        !            42: still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
        !            43: of empty lines.
        !            44: .Pp
        !            45: The options are as follows:
        !            46: .Tw Fl
        !            47: .Tp Cx Fl d 
        !            48: .Ar list
        !            49: .Cx
        !            50: Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
        !            51: characters instead of the default tab.
        !            52: The characters in
        !            53: .Ar list
        !            54: are used circularly, i.e., when
        !            55: .Ar list
        !            56: is exhausted the first character from
        !            57: .Ar list
        !            58: is reused.
        !            59: This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
        !            60: or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which
        !            61: time
        !            62: .Nm paste
        !            63: begins selecting characters from the beginning of
        !            64: .Ar list
        !            65: again.
        !            66: .Pp
        !            67: The following special characters can also be used in list:
        !            68: .Tw Ds
        !            69: .Tp Li \en
        !            70: newline character
        !            71: .br
        !            72: .Tp Li \et
        !            73: tab character
        !            74: .br
        !            75: .Tp Li \e\e
        !            76: backslash character
        !            77: .br
        !            78: .Tp Li \e0
        !            79: Empty string (not a null character).
        !            80: .Pp
        !            81: Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
        !            82: character itself.
        !            83: .Tp
        !            84: .Tp Fl s
        !            85: Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
        !            86: order.
        !            87: The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
        !            88: file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
        !            89: the -d option.
        !            90: .Tp
        !            91: .Pp
        !            92: If ``-'' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
        !            93: input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
        !            94: for each instance of ``-''.
        !            95: .Pp
        !            96: The
        !            97: .Nm paste
        !            98: utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
        !            99: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !           100: .Xr cut 1
        !           101: .Sh STANDARDS
        !           102: The
        !           103: .Nm paste
        !           104: function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.

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