From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 20:34:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09292 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:34:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09283 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id XAA29034; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:34:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980108233431.09516@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:34:31 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pr(1) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from David E. Cross on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:58:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:58:53PM -0500, David E. Cross wrote: > I noticed the following output when I used pr(1)... > lptest | pr -2 -t -w40 > > produces two colums of text, with a total width of 40 (as expected)... > > lptest | pr -1 -t -w40 > > produces one column of text, with no change in the totals width... am I > missing something? (it is consistent across FreeBSD and Solaris) According the the pr(1) man page, this is to be expected. -w width Set the width of the line to width column positions for multiple text-column output only. Notice the words `multiple text-column output only'. You specified a single column, therefore you disabled `-w' option. What are you attempting to accomplish? Perhaps there is another way of achieving what you want.... > > -- > David Cross > UNIX System Administrator > GE CRD -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.