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.TH LAM 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
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.SH NAME
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lam - laminate lines of multiple files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B lam
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[
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.B \-tC
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input1 input2 ..
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Lam
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simply joins lines from multiple inputs, separating them with
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the given tab character (TAB by default).
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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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.PP
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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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lam -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` | lam - -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), neat(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)
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