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with a backslash in most shells. |
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If no argument is given, the default newline terminator is re-established. |
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.PP |
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< |
An output is either a file or a command. |
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< |
If an output file exists, it will not be overwritten unless the |
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> |
Output is either to a file, to a command, to the standard output, or to discard. |
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> |
If a named output file exists, it will not be overwritten unless the |
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.I \-f |
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option is given, or it is being appended using the |
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.I \-a |
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option. |
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+ |
The same output file may not appear more than once. |
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Commands are given in quotes, and begin with an exclamantion point ('!'). |
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< |
A period ('.') may also be specified as output, |
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< |
which indicates that no output is desired for this field. |
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< |
The corresponding data will be skipped on the input. |
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> |
At most, one command may reliably write to its standard output, and |
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> |
doing so is incompatible with |
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> |
.I rsplit |
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> |
also writing to standard output. |
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> |
A hyphen ('-') by itself tells |
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> |
.I rsplit |
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> |
to write directly to its standard output, and may appear multiple times. |
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> |
The options before the first appearance determine the |
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> |
standard output header parameters. |
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> |
A period ('.') tells |
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> |
.I rsplit |
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> |
to discard the corresponding data, and also may appear multiple times. |
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.PP |
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The |
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.I \-oa |
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option is given with a positive integer argument, this will be the |
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maximum number of records that will be written by |
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.I rsplit. |
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– |
.PP |
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– |
A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard |
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– |
output, and may appear multiple times. |
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– |
The options before the first appearance determine the |
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– |
header parameters, if any. |
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– |
Results will be unpredictable if the standard output is specified |
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– |
in this way |
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– |
and any of the command outputs also writes to their standard output. |
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– |
At most, one command may reliably write to its standard output. |
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.PP |
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The |
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.I \-ih |
