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Fix confusing example in paste(1)

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Fix confusing example in paste(1)

Paste's man page contains an example for a reimplementation of
nl(1). This example uses the command line

sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' - -

in order to concatenate consecutive lines with an intervening tab.

However, the way the example uses the switches -s and -d and two dash
input files is redundant. There are in fact two equivalent but simpler
ways to achieve the desired result:

sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' -

uses the same style as the previous example, while

sed = myfile | paste - -

is arguably even simpler and illustrates the final sentence of the
DESCRIPTION.

Reviewed by: imp@
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/163

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jocki84 <jocki84@googlemail.com>Authored on Jul 12 2018, 5:22 PM
impCommitted on May 31 2021, 10:12 PM
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rGd912068ad826: Remove duplicated lines in contrib/tzcode/stdtime/private.h
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