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bug#15529: paste documentation tweak
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
bug#15529: paste documentation tweak |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 23:34:09 GMT |
I suggest the following small change to the paste node in the
documentation. Sorry I don't have the git-fu to give you the patch in
that format.
2013-10-04 Karl Berry <address@hidden>
* coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Move synopsis to
above existing example; add second example for standard input.
--- ORIG/coreutils.texi 2013-02-11 01:37:28.000000000 -0800
+++ coreutils.texi 2013-10-04 16:31:13.602509258 -0700
@@ -5963,3 +5963,9 @@
-For example:
+Synopsis:
+
address@hidden
+paste address@hidden@dots{} address@hidden@dots{}
address@hidden example
+
+Example:
@@ -5979,8 +5985,2 @@
-Synopsis:
-
address@hidden
-paste address@hidden@dots{} address@hidden@dots{}
address@hidden example
-
The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
@@ -6019,2 +6019,10 @@
+Here is another example, to paste together consecutive lines from
+standard input, with a delimiter of a space:
+
address@hidden
+$ cat num2 | paste -d"" - -
+1 2
address@hidden example
+
@exitstatus
Diff finished at Fri Oct 4 16:31:15
- bug#15529: paste documentation tweak,
Karl Berry <=