[hacknews] abut

david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (02/17/84)

Abut reads a list of file arguments and joins corresponding lines of all of
the files into one.  A tab character is placed between columns by default,
but this character can be changed.  The main application of this command will
be joining several files of data into one with multiple columns.  See the
manual page for more details and other options.
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david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (05/11/84)

Abut(1) has been cleaned up a bit.  It now uses efopen(3) and error(3).
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david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (02/05/85)

Abut(1)'s `-c' option was not interacting well with a pipe as
standard input.  It tried to rewind(3) the pipe.  Abut now stops
cycling its input as soon as an input pipe returns EOF.
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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