Annotation of 43BSDReno/usr.bin/pr/pr.1, revision 1.1

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        !            18: .\"     @(#)pr.1       6.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
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        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Dt PR 1
        !            22: .Os BSD 4.3+Reno
        !            23: .Sh NAME
        !            24: .Nm pr
        !            25: .Nd Print files.
        !            26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            27: .Nm pr
        !            28: .Oo
        !            29: .Op Cm \&+ Ar page
        !            30: .Op Fl Ar column
        !            31: .Oo
        !            32: .Op Fl f
        !            33: .Op Fl hheader
        !            34: .Op Fl llines
        !            35: .Op Fl m
        !            36: .Oo
        !            37: .Op Fl s Ar char
        !            38: .Oo
        !            39: .Op Fl t
        !            40: .Oo
        !            41: .Op Fl w Ar width
        !            42: .Oo
        !            43: .Ar
        !            44: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            45: The
        !            46: .Nm pr
        !            47: utility is a printing and pagination filter.
        !            48: If multiple
        !            49: input files are specified, each is read, formatted,
        !            50: and written to standard output.
        !            51: By default, the input is
        !            52: separated into pages, each with a header that includes the
        !            53: page number, date, time, and the file's pathname.
        !            54: Text
        !            55: columns are of equal width, with at least one <blank>
        !            56: separation between text columns.
        !            57: Lines that do not fit into
        !            58: a text column are truncated.
        !            59: If standard output is associated
        !            60: with a terminal, diagnostic messages are suppressed
        !            61: until the
        !            62: .Nm
        !            63: utility has completed processing.
        !            64: .Pp
        !            65: The following options are available:
        !            66: .Tw Fl
        !            67: .Tc Cm \&+
        !            68: .Ar page
        !            69: .Cx
        !            70: Begin output at page number page of the
        !            71: formatted input.
        !            72: .Tc Fl
        !            73: .Ar column
        !            74: .Cx
        !            75: Produce output that is columns wide (default
        !            76: is 1) and is in text column rank order.
        !            77: This
        !            78: option should not be used with
        !            79: .Fl m .
        !            80: When
        !            81: used with
        !            82: .Fl t ,
        !            83: use the minimum number of lines
        !            84: to display the output.
        !            85: .Tp Fl f
        !            86: Use <form-feed> character for new pages,
        !            87: instead of the default behavior that uses a
        !            88: sequence of <newline> characters.
        !            89: Prior to
        !            90: displaying the first page of output an
        !            91: <alert> character is written to standard output.
        !            92: .Tp Cx  Fl h
        !            93: .Ar header
        !            94: .Cx
        !            95: Use the string header as the header to be
        !            96: printed instead of file.
        !            97: .Tp Cx Fl l
        !            98: .Ar lines
        !            99: .Cx
        !           100: Override the 66 line default and reset the
        !           101: page length to lines.
        !           102: If lines is smaller
        !           103: than the sum of both the header and trailer
        !           104: depths (in lines), the pr utility suppresses
        !           105: both the header and trailer, as if the
        !           106: .Fl t
        !           107: option were in effect.
        !           108: .Tp Fl m
        !           109: Merge files.
        !           110: Standard output is formatted so
        !           111: the
        !           112: .Nm pr
        !           113: utility writes one line from each file
        !           114: specified by a file operand, side by side
        !           115: into text columns of equal fixed widths, in
        !           116: terms of the number of column positions.
        !           117: .Tp Cx Fl s
        !           118: .Ar char
        !           119: .Cx
        !           120: Separate text columns by the single character
        !           121: char instead of by the appropriate number of
        !           122: <space>s (default for char is the <tab> character).
        !           123: .Tp Fl t
        !           124: Print neither the five-line identifying
        !           125: header nor the five-line trailer usually
        !           126: supplied for each page.
        !           127: Quit printing after the
        !           128: last line of each file without spacing to the
        !           129: end of the page.
        !           130: .Tp Cx Fl w
        !           131: .Ar width
        !           132: .Cx
        !           133: Set the width of the line to width column
        !           134: positions for multiple text-column output
        !           135: only (default is 72).
        !           136: .Tp
        !           137: .Pp
        !           138: The following operands are available:
        !           139: .Tw Fl
        !           140: .Tp Ar file
        !           141: A pathname of a file to be printed.
        !           142: .Tp
        !           143: .Pp
        !           144: If no file
        !           145: operands are specified, or if a file operand is
        !           146: .Sq Fl ,
        !           147: the standard input is used.
        !           148: .Pp
        !           149: The standard input is used only if no file operands are
        !           150: specified, or if a file operand is
        !           151: .Sq Fl .
        !           152: .Pp
        !           153: If pr receives an interrupt while printing to a terminal, it
        !           154: flushes all accumulated error messages to the screen before
        !           155: terminating.
        !           156: .Pp
        !           157: The pr utility output is a paginated version of the original
        !           158: file (or files).
        !           159: This pagination is optionally done using
        !           160: <form-feed>s or a sequence of <newline>s.
        !           161: Page headers are
        !           162: generated unless the
        !           163: .Fl t
        !           164: option is specified.
        !           165: .Pp
        !           166: The
        !           167: .Nm pr
        !           168: utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
        !           169: .Pp
        !           170: Error
        !           171: messages are written to standard error during the printing
        !           172: process (if output is redirected) or after all successful
        !           173: file printing is complete (when printing to a terminal).
        !           174: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !           175: .Xr more 1
        !           176: .Sh STANDARDS
        !           177: The
        !           178: .Nm pr
        !           179: function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.

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