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 sep-
       arated 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  charac-
			       ters. 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 posi-
			       tions 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  charac-
			       ter 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 columns).

       -i[char][gap]	       In output, replaces SPACE characters with TAB characters wherever one or more adjacent SPACE characters reach  col-
			       umn  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.

   /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	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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

SunOS 5.10							    18 Mar 1997 							     pr(1)