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.\" RCSid "$Id: rlam.1,v 1.1 2004/01/01 19:31:45 greg Exp $" |
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.TH RLAM 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE |
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.SH NAME |
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rlam - laminate lines (records) from multiple files |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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.B rlam |
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[ |
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.B \-tS |
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input1 input2 .. |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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.I Rlam |
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simply joins lines from multiple inputs, separating them with |
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the given separator string (TAB by default). |
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Different separators may be given for different files by specifying |
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additional |
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.I \-t |
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options in between each file name. |
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An input is either a stream or a command. |
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Commands are given in quotes, and begin with an exclamantion point ('!'). |
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If the inputs do not have the same number of lines, then |
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shorter files will stop contributing to the output as they |
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run out. |
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A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard |
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input. |
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.SH EXAMPLE |
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To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma: |
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.IP "" .2i |
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rlam -t, output1 output2 |
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.PP |
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To join a file with line numbers (starting at 0) and its reverse: |
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.IP "" .2i |
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cnt `wc -l < lam.c` | rlam - -t: lam.c -t\| '!tail -r lam.c' |
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.SH AUTHOR |
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Greg Ward |
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.SH "SEE ALSO" |
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cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1) |
