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- PR(1L) PR(1L)
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- NAME
- pr - convert text files for printing
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- SYNOPSIS
- pr [+PAGE] [-COLUMN] [-abcdfFmrtv] [-e[in-tab-char[in-tab-
- width]]] [-h header] [-i[out-tab-char[out-tab-width]]] [-l
- page-length] [-n[number-separator[digits]]] [-o left-
- margin] [-s[column-separator]] [-w page-width] [--help]
- [--version] [file...]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of pr. pr
- prints on the standard output a paginated and optionally
- multicolumn copy of the text files given on the command
- line, or of the standard input if no files are given or
- when the file name `-' is encountered. Form feeds in the
- input cause page breaks in the output.
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- OPTIONS
- +PAGE Begin printing with page PAGE.
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- -COLUMN
- Produce COLUMN-column output and print columns
- down. The column width is automatically decreased
- as COLUMN increases; unless you use the -w option
- to increase the page width as well, this option
- might cause some columns to be truncated.
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- -a Print columns across rather than down.
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- -b Balance columns on the last page.
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- -c Print control characters using hat notation (e.g.,
- `^G'); print other unprintable characters in octal
- backslash notation.
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- -d Double space the output.
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- -e[in-tab-char[in-tab-width]]
- Expand tabs to spaces on input. Optional argument
- in-tab-char is the input tab character, default
- tab. Optional argument in-tab-width is the input
- tab character's width, default 8.
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- -F, -f Use a formfeed instead of newlines to separate out-
- put pages.
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- -h header
- Replace the filename in the header with the string
- header.
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- --help Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
- tus.
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- FSF GNU Text Utilities 1
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- -i[out-tab-char[out-tab-width]]
- Replace spaces with tabs on output. Optional argu-
- ment out-tab-char is the output tab character,
- default tab. Optional argument out-tab-width is
- the output tab character's width, default 8.
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- -l page-length
- Set the page length to page-length lines. The
- default is 66. If page-length is less than 10, the
- headers and footers are omitted, as if the -t
- option had been given.
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- -m Print all files in parallel, one in each column.
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- -n[number-separator[digits]]
- Precede each column with a line number; with paral-
- lel files, precede each line with a line number.
- Optional argument number-separator is the character
- to print after each number, default tab. Optional
- argument digits is the number of digits per line
- number, default 5.
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- -o left-margin
- Offset each line with a margin left-margin spaces
- wide. The total page width is this offset plus the
- width set with the -w option.
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- -r Do not print a warning message when an argument
- file cannot be opened. Failure to open a file
- still makes the exit status nonzero, however.
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- -s[column-separator]
- Separate columns by the single character column-
- separator, default tab, instead of spaces.
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- -t Do not print the 5-line header and the 5-line
- trailer that are normally on each page, and do not
- fill out the bottoms of pages (with blank lines or
- formfeeds).
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- -v Print unprintable characters in octal backslash
- notation.
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- --version
- Print version information on standard error then
- exit.
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- -w page-width
- Set the page width to page-width columns. The
- default is 72.
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- FSF GNU Text Utilities 2
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