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2   .TH RLAM 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
3   .SH NAME
4 < rlam - laminate lines (records) from multiple files
4 > rlam - laminate records from multiple files
5   .SH SYNOPSIS
6   .B rlam
7   [
8 < .B \-tC
8 > .B \-tS
9 > ][
10 > .B \-u
11 > ][
12 > .B \-iaN
13 > |
14 > .B \-ifN
15 > |
16 > .B \-idN
17 > |
18 > .B \-iiN
19 > |
20 > .B \-iwN
21 > |
22 > .B \-ibN
23 > ][
24 > .B "\-in M"
25   ]
26 < input1 input2 ..
26 > input1 [options] input2 ..
27   .SH DESCRIPTION
28   .I Rlam
29 < simply joins lines from multiple inputs, separating them with
30 < the given tab character (TAB by default).
29 > simply joins records (or lines) from multiple inputs, separating them with
30 > the given string (TAB by default).
31 > Different separators may be given for different files by specifying
32 > additional
33 > .I \-t
34 > options in between each file name.
35 > Note that there is no space between this option and its argument.
36 > If none of the input files uses an ASCII separator, then no end-of-line
37 > character will be printed, either.
38 > .PP
39   An input is either a stream or a command.
40   Commands are given in quotes, and begin with an exclamantion point ('!').
41 < If the inputs do not have the same number of lines, then
41 > If the inputs do not have the same number of records, then
42   shorter files will stop contributing to the output as they
43   run out.
44   .PP
45 + The
46 + .I \-ia
47 + option may be used to specify ASCII input (the default), or the
48 + .I \-if
49 + option may be used to indicated binary IEEE 32-bit floats on input.
50 + Similarly, the
51 + .I \-id
52 + and
53 + .I \-ii
54 + options may be used to indicate binary 64-bit doubles or integer words,
55 + respectively.
56 + The
57 + .I \-iw
58 + option specifies 2-byte short words, and the
59 + .I \-ib
60 + option specifies bytes.
61 + If a number is immediately follows any of these options, then it
62 + indicates that multiple such values are expected for each record.
63 + For example,
64 + .I \-if3
65 + indicates three floats per input record for the next named input.
66 + In the case of the
67 + .I \-ia
68 + option, no number reads one line per record, and numbers
69 + greater than zero take multiple lines at a time from the same stream.
70 + For binary input formts, no number implies one value per record.
71 + For anything other than EOL-separated input, the default tab separator
72 + is reset to the empty string.
73 + .PP
74 + These options may be interspersed with input specifications,
75 + indicating different data to draw from the different files.
76 + .PP
77 + If a
78 + .I \-in
79 + option is given with a positive integer argument, this will be the
80 + maximum number of records that will be read or produced by
81 + .I rlam.
82 + .PP
83   A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard
84 < input.
84 > input, and may appear multiple times.
85 > The
86 > .I \-u
87 > option forces output after each record (i.e., one run through inputs).
88   .SH EXAMPLE
89   To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma:
90   .IP "" .2i
91 < rlam -t, output1 output2
91 > rlam \-t, output1 output2
92   .PP
93   To join a file with line numbers (starting at 0) and its reverse:
94   .IP "" .2i
95 < cnt `wc -l < lam.c` | rlam - -t: lam.c -t\| '\!tail -r lam.c'
95 > cnt `wc \-l < lam.c` | rlam \- \-t: lam.c \-t\| '!tail \-r lam.c'
96 > .PP
97 > To join four data files, each having three doubles per record:
98 > .IP "" .2i
99 > rlam \-id3 file1.dbl file2.dbl file3.dbl file4.dbl > combined.dbl
100 > .PP
101 > To join two data files, the first having two words per
102 > record and the second having one:
103 > .IP "" .2i
104 > rlam \-iw2 file1.hi2 \-iw file2.hi1 > combined.hi3
105   .SH AUTHOR
106   Greg Ward
107   .SH "SEE ALSO"
108 < cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)
108 > cnt(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rsplit(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)

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