pr(1)								   User Commands							     pr(1)

NAME

       pr - print files

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/pr [+ page] [-column] [-adFmrt] [-e [char] [gap]]
	    [-h header] [-i [char] [gap]] [-l lines]
	    [-n [char] [width]] [-o offset] [-s [char]]
	    [-w width] [-fp] [file]...

       /usr/xpg4/bin/pr [+ page] [-column | -c column] [-adFmrt]
	    [-e [char] [gap]] [-h header] [-i [char] [gap]]
	    [-l lines] [-n [char] [width]] [-o offset]
	    [-s [char]] [-w width] [-fp] [file]...

DESCRIPTION

       The pr utility is a printing and pagination filter. If multiple input files are specified, each is read, formatted, and written to standard
       output. By default, the input is separated into 66-line pages, each with:

	   o	  a 5-line header that includes the page number, date, time and the path name of the file

	   o	  a 5-line trailer consisting of blank lines

       If standard output is associated with a terminal, diagnostic messages will be deferred until the pr utility has completed processing.

       When options specifying multi-column output are specified, output text columns will be of equal width; input lines that do not fit  into  a
       text column will be truncated. By default, text columns are separated with at least one blank character.

OPTIONS

       The  following  options	are  supported.  In the following option descriptions, column, lines, offset, page, and width are positive decimal
       integers; gap is a non-negative decimal integer. Some of the option-arguments are optional, and some  of  the  option-arguments	cannot	be
       specified as separate arguments from the preceding option letter. In particular, the -s option does not allow the option letter to be sepa-
       rated from its argument, and the options -e, -i, and -n require that both arguments, if present, not be separated from the option letter.

       The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/pr and /usr/xpg4/bin/pr:

       +page			    Begins output at page number page of the formatted input.

       -column			    Produces multi-column output that is arranged in column columns (default is 1) and is written down each column
				    in the order in which the text is received from the input file. This option should not be used with -m. The -e
				    and -i options will be assumed for multiple text-column output. Whether or not text columns are produced  with
				    identical vertical lengths is unspecified, but a text column will never exceed the length of the page (see the
				    -l option). When used with -t, use the minimum number of lines to write the output.

       -a			    Modifies the effect of the -column option so that the columns are filled across  the  page	in  a  round-robin
				    order  (for  example,  when  column  is 2, the first input line heads column 1, the second heads column 2, the
				    third is the second line in column 1, and so forth).

       -d			    Produces output that is double-spaced; append an extra NEWLINE character  following  every	NEWLINE  character
				    found in the input.

       -e[char][gap]		    Expands  each input TAB character to the next greater column position specified by the formula n *gap+1, where
				    n is an integer >0. If gap is 0 or is omitted, it defaults to 8. All TAB  characters  in  the  input  will	be
				    expanded  into the appropriate number of SPACE characters.	If any non-digit character, char, is specified, it
				    will be used as the input tab character.

       -f			    Uses a FORMFEED character for new pages, instead of the default behavior that uses a sequence of NEWLINE char-
				    acters. Pauses before beginning the first page if the standard output is associated with a terminal.

       -h header		    Uses the string header to replace the contents of the file operand in the page header.

       -l lines 		    Overrides the 66-line default and reset the page length to lines. If lines is not greater than the sum of both
				    the header and trailer depths (in lines), pr will suppress both the header and trailer, as if  the	-t  option
				    were in effect.

       -m			    Merges  files.  Standard output will be formatted so pr writes one line from each file specified by file, side
				    by side into text columns of equal fixed widths, in terms of the number of column  positions.  Implementations
				    support merging of at least nine files.

       -n[char][width]		    Provides  width-digit  line  numbering (default for width is 5). The number will occupy the first width column
				    positions of each text column of default output or each line of -m output. If char (any  non-digit	character)
				    is	given,	it will be appended to the line number to separate it from whatever follows (default for char is a
				    TAB character).

       -o offset		    Each line of output will be preceded by offset <space>s. If the -o option is not specified, the default offset
				    is 0. The space taken will be in addition to the output line width (see -w option below).

       -p			    Pauses  before  beginning  each  page if the standard output is directed to a terminal (pr will write an ALERT
				    character to standard error and wait for a carriage-return character to be read on /dev/tty).

       -r			    Writes no diagnostic reports on failure to open files.

       -s [char]		    Separates text columns by the single character char instead of by the appropriate number of  SPACE	characters
				    (default for char is the TAB character).

       -t			    Writes  neither  the  five-line  identifying  header nor the five-line trailer usually supplied for each page.
				    Quits writing after the last line of each file without spacing to the end of the page.

       -w width 		    Sets the width of the line to width column positions for multiple text-column output only. If the -w option is
				    not  specified  and the -s option is not specified, the default width is 72. If the -w option is not specified
				    and the -s option is specified, the default width is 512.

				    For single column output, input lines will not be truncated.

   /usr/bin/pr
       The following options are supported for /usr/bin/pr only:

       -F			  Folds the lines of the input file. When used in multi-column mode (with the -a or -m	options),  lines  will	be
				  folded  to fit the current column's width. Otherwise, they will be folded to fit the current line width (80 col-
				  umns).

       -i[char][gap]		  In output, replaces SPACE characters with TAB characters wherever one or more adjacent  SPACE  characters  reach
				  column positions gap+1, 2*gap+1, 3*gap+1, and so forth. If gap is 0 or is omitted, default TAB settings at every
				  eighth column position are assumed. If any non-digit character, char, is specified, it will be used as the  out-
				  put TAB character.

   /usr/xpg4/bin/pr
       The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/pr only:

       -F			  Uses a FORMFEED character for new pages, instead of the default behavior that uses a sequence of NEWLINE charac-
				  ters.

       -i[char][gap]		  In output, replaces multiple SPACE characters with TAB characters wherever two or more adjacent SPACE characters
				  reach column positions gap+1, 2*gap+1, 3*gap+1, and so forth. If gap is 0 or is omitted, default TAB settings at
				  every eighth column position are assumed. If any non-digit character, char, is specified, it will be used as the
				  output TAB character.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       file    A path name of a file to be written. If no file operands are specified, or if a file operand is -, the standard input will be used.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Printing a numbered list of all files in the current directory

	 example% ls -a | pr -n -h "Files in $(pwd)."

       Example 2 Printing files in columns

       This example prints file1 and file2 as a double-spaced, three-column listing headed by file list:

	 example% pr -3d -h "file list" file1 file2

       Example 3 Writing files with expanded column tabs

       The following example writes file1 on file2, expanding tabs to columns 10, 19, 28, ...

	 example% pr -e9 -t <file1 >file2

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  environ(5)	for  descriptions  of the following environment variables that affect the execution of pr: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, LC_TIME, TZ, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

   /usr/bin/pr
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

   /usr/xpg4/bin/pr
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxcu4			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Standard		     |See standards(5). 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       expand(1), lp(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    18 Mar 1997 							     pr(1)