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pr -- Command Paginate and print files pr [ options ] [ file ...] pr paginates each file and writes it onto the standard output. At the top of each page, pr writes a header that that gives today's date, the file's name, the number of the page, and the number of the line in the input file at which printing begins. The file name `-' tells pr to read the standard input; this lets you mingle text from one or more files with text you type from the keyboard or pipe in from another program. pr also reads the standard input by default if its command line does not name a file. pr recognizes the following command-line options: + skip Skip the first skip pages of each input file. -N Print the text in N columns. This is used to print out material that was typed in one or more columns. -h header Use header in place of the text name in the title. If header is more than one word long, it must be enclosed in quotation marks. -lN Set the page length to N lines (default, 66). -m Print the texts simultaneously, in separate columns. Each text will be assigned an equal amount of width on the page, and any lines longer than that width will be truncated. You can use this to print several similar texts or listings simultaneously. -n Number each line. -sc Separate each column by the character c. You can separate columns with a letter of the alphabet, a period, or an asterisk. Normally, each column is left-justified in a fixed-width field. -t Suppress the printing of the header on each page, and the header and footer space. -wN Set the page width to N columns (default, 80). Text lines are truncated to fit the column width. The maximum width is 254 columns. See Also cat, commands, nroff, prps Notes pr generates normal ASCII text, suitable for displaying on your screen or printing with a dot-matrix printer. The command prps also paginates text, but its output is in the PostScript language, suitable for printing on a PostScript printer.