On 10/05/2013 12:34 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
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 k...@gnu.org
* coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Move synopsis to
above existing example; add second example for standard input.
--- ORIG/coreutils.texi 2013-02-11 01:37:28.0 -0800
+++ coreutils.texi2013-10-04 16:31:13.602509258 -0700
@@ -5963,3 +5963,9 @@
-For example:
+Synopsis:
+
+@example
+paste [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{}
+@end example
+
+Example:
@@ -5979,8 +5985,2 @@
-Synopsis:
-
-@example
-paste [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{}
-@end 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:
+
+@example
+$ cat num2 | paste -d - -
+1 2
+@end example
+
@exitstatus
Diff finished at Fri Oct 4 16:31:15
Yes the `paste` examples could be better.
This might be a bit more instructive:
$ seq 4 | paste -d ' ' - -
1 2
3 4
Also this might be good for comparison:
$ seq 4 | paste -s -d ' '
1 2 3 4
I'll push something like that in the morning.
thanks,
Pádraig.
