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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 \-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 ..
27   .SH DESCRIPTION
28   .I Rlam
29 < simply joins lines from multiple inputs, separating them with
30 < the given separator string (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
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 indicates one line per input record, and numbers
69 + greater than zero indicate that many characters exactly per record.
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 + If a
75 + .I \-in
76 + option is given with a positive integer argument, this will be the
77 + maximum number of records that will be read or produced by
78 + .I rlam.
79 + .PP
80   A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard
81 < input.
81 > input, and may appear multiple times.
82 > The
83 > .I \-u
84 > option forces output after each record (i.e., one run through inputs).
85   .SH EXAMPLE
86   To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma:
87   .IP "" .2i
88 < rlam -t, output1 output2
88 > rlam \-t, output1 output2
89   .PP
90   To join a file with line numbers (starting at 0) and its reverse:
91   .IP "" .2i
92 < cnt `wc -l < lam.c` | rlam - -t: lam.c -t\| '!tail -r lam.c'
92 > cnt `wc \-l < lam.c` | rlam \- \-t: lam.c \-t\| '!tail \-r lam.c'
93 > .PP
94 > To join four data files, each having three doubles per record:
95 > .IP "" .2i
96 > rlam \-id3 file1.dbl file2.dbl file3.dbl file4.dbl > combined.dbl
97   .SH AUTHOR
98   Greg Ward
99   .SH "SEE ALSO"
100 < cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)
100 > cnt(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)

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