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From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: 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  <karl <at> gnu.org>

	* coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Move synopsis to
	above existing example; add second example for standard input.

--- ORIG/coreutils.texi	2013-02-11 01:37:28.000000000 -0800
+++ coreutils.texi	2013-10-04 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

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