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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Linux
Commands
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
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x Skip to the next file, saving changes.
^L Redraw screen.
^Z Suspend ispell.
join
join [options] file1 file2
Join lines of two sorted files by matching on a common field. If
either file1 or file2 is -, read from standard input. Often used to
merge data stored in text-based file formats such as comma-sepa-
rated-value formatted spreadsheets.
Options
-a filenum
Print a line for each unpairable line in file filenum, in addition
to the normal output.
-e string
Replace missing input fields with string.
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore case differences when comparing keys.
-1 fieldnum1
The join field in file1 is fieldnum1. Default is the first field.
-2 fieldnum2
The join field in file2 is fieldnum2. Default is the first field.
-o fieldlist
Order the output fields according to fieldlist, where each entry
in the list is in the form filenum.fieldnum. Entries are sepa-
rated by commas or blanks.
-t char
Specifies the field-separator character (default is whitespace).
-v filenum
Print only unpairable lines from file filenum.
--help
Print help message and then exit.
--version
Print the version number and then exit.
kbd_mode
kbd_mode [option]
Print or set the current keyboard mode, which may be RAW,
MEDIUMRAW, XLATE, or UNICODE.
Options
-a Set mode to XLATE (ASCII mode).
-k Set mode to MEDIUMRAW (keycode ...
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