LAM(1) | General Commands Manual | LAM(1) |
lam
— laminate
files
lam |
[-f
min.max]
[-s sepstring]
[-t c] file
... |
lam |
[-p
min.max]
[-s sepstring]
[-t c] file
... |
The lam
utility copies the named files
side by side onto the standard output. The n-th input
lines from the input files are considered fragments of
the single long n-th output line into which they are
assembled. The name `-' means the standard input, and may be
repeated.
-f
min.max,
-F
min.max-f
applies
only to the next file while -F
applies to all
subsequent files until it appears again uncapitalized.-p
min.max,
-P
min.max-f
, but pad this file's field when
end-of-file is reached and other files are still active. Using
-p
applies only to the next file while
-P
applies to all subsequent files until it
appears again uncapitalized.-s
sepstring, -S
sepstring-s
applies only to the next file while
-S
applies to all subsequent files until it
appears again uncapitalized.-t
c, -T
c-t
applies only to the next file while
-T
applies to all subsequent files until it
appears again uncapitalized.To print files simultaneously for easy viewing use pr(1).
The command
lam file1 file2 file3 file4
joins 4 files together along each line. To merge the lines from four different files use
lam file1 -S "\ " file2 file3 file4
Every 2 lines of a file may be joined on one line with
lam - - < file
and a form letter with substitutions keyed by `@' can be done with
lam -t @ letter changes
Some of the functionality of lam
is
standardized as the paste(1) utility by
IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”).
The lam
utility first appeared in
4.2BSD.
John A. Kunze
The lam
utility does not recognize
multibyte characters.
April 7, 2015 | macOS 14.6 |