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| PSC(1) |
General Commands Manual |
PSC(1) |
NAME¶
psc - prepare sc files
SYNOPSIS¶
psc [-fLkrSPv] [-s cell] [-R
n] [-C n] [-n n]
[-d c]
DESCRIPTION¶
Psc is used to prepare data for input to the spreadsheet calculator
sc(1). It accepts normal ascii data on standard input. Standard output
is a sc file. With no options, psc starts the spreadsheet in
cell A0. Strings are right justified. All data on a line is entered on the
same row; new input lines cause the output row number to increment by one. The
default delimiters are tab and space. The column formats are set to one larger
than the number of columns required to hold the largest value in the column.
OPTIONS¶
- -f
- Omit column width calculations. This option is for preparing data to be
merged with an existing spreadsheet. If the option is not specified, the
column widths calculated for the data read by psc will override
those already set in the existing spreadsheet.
- -L
- Left justify strings.
- -k
- Keep all delimiters. This option causes the output cell to change on each
new delimiter encountered in the input stream. The default action is to
condense multiple delimiters to one, so that the cell only changes once
per input data item.
- -r
- Output the data by row first then column. For input consisting of a single
column, this option will result in output of one row with multiple columns
instead of a single column spreadsheet.
- -s cell
- Start the top left corner of the spreadsheet in cell. For example,
-s B33 will arrange the output data so that the spreadsheet starts
in column B, row 33.
- -R n
- Increment by n on each new output row.
- -C n
- Increment by n on each new output column.
- -n n
- Output n rows before advancing to the next column. This option is
used when the input is arranged in a single column and the spreadsheet is
to have multiple columns, each of which is to be length n.
- -d c
- Use the single character c as the delimiter between input
fields.
- -P
- Plain numbers only. A field is a number only when there is no imbedded
[-+eE].
- -S
- All numbers are strings.
- -v
- Print the version of psc
