4.3BSD/usr/contrib/icon/man/cat1/lam.1

LAM(1)                Icon Program Library                 LAM(1)



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     lam - laminate files

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     _L_a_m laminates the named files onto the standard output.  The
     resulting output is the line-by-line concatenation of
     corresponding lines from each file named.  If the files are
     different lengths, empty lines are substituted for missing
     lines in the shorter files.

     Each _s_t_r_i_n_g argument is placed in the output line at the
     point that it appears in the argument list.  For example,
     lines from _f_i_l_e_1 and _f_i_l_e_2 can be laminated with a colon
     between each line from _f_i_l_e_1 and the corresponding line from
     _f_i_l_e_2 by the command

          lam file1 -: file2


     Filenames and strings may appear in any order in the argu-
     ment list.  If `-', is given for a filename the standard
     input is read at that point.  If a file is named more than
     once, each of its lines will be duplicated on the output
     line, except that if standard input is named more than once,
     its lines will be read alternately.  For example, each pair
     of lines from standard input can be joined onto one line
     with a space between them by the command

          lam - "- " -


     while the command

          lam file1 "- " file1


     replicates each line from _f_i_l_e_1.

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     delam(1), delamc(1)

     Hanson, David R. _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e _T_o_o_l_s _U_s_e_r'_s _M_a_n_u_a_l, Technical
     Report TR 81-20, Department of Computer Science, The Univer-
     sity of Arizona.  1981.








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