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Top Forums Programming Help with Mkfifo and exec Post 302469522 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 6th of November 2010 07:21:12 PM
Old 11-06-2010
Could you please repost this in the homework forums? you can just copy and paste.
The reason is that you have to provide school & class information.

Thank you.
 

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PASTE(1)								FSF								  PASTE(1)

NAME
paste - merge lines of files SYNOPSIS
paste [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, --delimiters=LIST reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site, the command info paste should give you access to the complete manual. paste (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 PASTE(1)
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