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| author | jocki84 <jocki84@googlemail.com> | 2018-07-12 17:22:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-05-31 22:12:44 +0000 |
| commit | 8790fe3058c83f624ca2155fb0dbaac23c641237 (patch) | |
| tree | 880e07c76b534f33afbf606ebaa6a8b9b42cf9c7 /usr.bin/paste | |
| parent | d912068ad826e457f0c0203d1cad02df81c35bbc (diff) | |
| download | src-8790fe3058c83f624ca2155fb0dbaac23c641237.tar.gz src-8790fe3058c83f624ca2155fb0dbaac23c641237.zip | |
Fix confusing example in paste(1)
Paste's man page contains an example for a reimplementation of
nl(1). This example uses the command line
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' - -
in order to concatenate consecutive lines with an intervening tab.
However, the way the example uses the switches -s and -d and two `dash`
input files is redundant. There are in fact two equivalent but simpler
ways to achieve the desired result:
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' -
uses the same style as the previous example, while
sed = myfile | paste - -
is arguably even simpler and illustrates the final sentence of the
DESCRIPTION.
Reviewed by: imp@
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/163
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/paste')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/paste/paste.1 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 index 8bd02dd47097..73b10fcd79b7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 +++ b/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines: Number the lines in a file, similar to .Xr nl 1 : .Pp -.Dl "sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\et\en' - -" +.Dl "sed = myfile | paste - -" .Pp Create a colon-separated list of directories named .Pa bin , |