1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)lam.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 35.Dt LAM 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm lam 39.Nd laminate files 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl f Ar min.max 43.Op Fl s Ar sepstring 44.Op Fl t Ar c 45.Ar file ... 46.Nm lam 47.Op Fl p Ar min.max 48.Op Fl s Ar sepstring 49.Op Fl t Ar c 50.Ar file ... 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52.Nm Lam 53copies the named files side by side onto the standard output. 54The 55.Em n-th 56input lines from the input 57.Ar files 58are considered fragments of the single long 59.Em n-th 60output line into which they are assembled. 61The name `\fB\-\fP' means the standard input, and may be repeated. 62.Pp 63Normally, each option affects only the 64.Ar file 65after it. 66If the option letter is capitalized it affects all subsequent files 67until it appears again uncapitalized. 68The options are described below. 69.Bl -tag -width indent 70.It Fl f Ar min.max 71Print line fragments according to the format string 72.Ar min.max , 73where 74.Ar min 75is the minimum field width and 76.Ar max 77the maximum field width. 78If 79.Ar min 80begins with a zero, zeros will be added to make up the field width, 81and if it begins with a `\-', the fragment will be left-adjusted 82within the field. 83.It Fl p Ar min.max 84Like 85.Fl f , 86but pad this file's field when end-of-file is reached 87and other files are still active. 88.It Fl s Ar sepstring 89Print 90.Ar sepstring 91before printing line fragments from the next file. 92This option may appear after the last file. 93.It Fl t Ar c 94The input line terminator is 95.Ar c 96instead of a newline. 97The newline normally appended to each output line is omitted. 98.El 99.Pp 100To print files simultaneously for easy viewing use 101.Xr pr 1 . 102.Sh EXAMPLES 103The command 104.Bd -literal 105lam file1 file2 file3 file4 106.Ed 107 108joins 4 files together along each line. 109To merge the lines from four different files use 110.Bd -literal 111lam file1 \-S "\\ 112.br 113" file2 file3 file4 114.Ed 115 116Every 2 lines of a file may be joined on one line with 117.Bd -literal 118lam \- \- < file 119.Ed 120 121and a form letter with substitutions keyed by `@' can be done with 122.Bd -literal 123lam \-t @ letter changes 124.Ed 125.Sh SEE ALSO 126.Xr join 1 , 127.Xr pr 1 , 128.Xr printf 3 129