MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pr(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pr(1)

NAME

pr — display and format ﬁles

SYNOPSIS

pr [–adFmprtW][–e[char][gap]] [–H header-fmt][–h header]

[–i[char][gap]] [–l n][–n[char][n]] [–o n][–s[char]] [–w n]

[+n][–n][ﬁle ...]

DESCRIPTION

pr displays the speciﬁed ﬁles on the standard output in a paginated form. If you do not spec-

ify any ﬁles or you specify a ﬁle name of –, pr reads the standard input. By default, pr for-

mats the given ﬁles into single-column 66-line pages. Each page has a 5-line header. By

default, the current ﬁle’s pathname, its last modiﬁed date, and current page number appear on

the third line; the other lines are blank. A 5-line trailer consists of blank lines.

If you specify multiple columns, pr places its output in columns of equal width separated by

at least one space, truncating each line to ﬁt in its column. Input lines may be ordered down

the columns or across the page on output; or different columns may each represent different

ﬁles.

Options

pr accepts the following options:

+n starts displaying with the nth page of each ﬁle. The default for n is 1.

–n displays n columns of output. When you specify this option, pr behaves as though

you had also speciﬁed the –e and –i options. When you specify both this option and

–t, pr uses the minimum number of lines possible to display the output. You should

not specify this option with –m.

–a orders input lines across the page on output, instead of down. You should only use

this option with –n.

–d produces double-spaced output.

–e[char][gap]

expands each occurrence of the input tab character to the next greater column posi-

tion speciﬁed by the formula n*gap+1 where n is a positive integer. pr expands all

input tab characters to an appropriate string of spaces. If you omit gap,orifitis

zero, pr assumes that gap is eight. If you specify the nondigit character char, pr

treats it as the input tab character; otherwise pr uses the standard tab character.

–F uses formfeeds to separate pages. pr normally separates pages by sending a series of

newline characters to ﬁll the length of a page.

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