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PASTE(1) USER COMMANDS PASTE(1)
NAME
paste - merge same lines of several files or subsequent
lines of one file
SYNOPSIS
paste file1 file2 ...
paste -dlist file1 file2 ...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2 ...
DESCRIPTION
In the first two forms, _p_a_s_t_e concatenates corresponding
lines of the given input files _f_i_l_e_1, _f_i_l_e_2, etc. It treats
each file as a column or columns of a table and pastes them
together horizontally (parallel merging). If you will, it
is the counterpart of _c_a_t(1) which concatenates vertically,
i.e., one file after the other. In the last form above,
_p_a_s_t_e replaces the function of an older command with the
same name by combining subsequent lines of the input file
(serial merging). In all cases, lines are glued together
with the _t_a_b character, or with characters from an option-
ally specified _l_i_s_t. Output is to the standard output, so
it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if -
is used in place of a file name.
The meanings of the options are:
-d Without this option, the new-line characters of each
but the last file (or last line in case of the -s
option) are replaced by a _t_a_b character. This option
allows replacing the _t_a_b character by one or more
alternate characters (see below).
_l_i_s_t One or more characters immediately following -d replace
the default _t_a_b as the line concatenation character.
The list is used circularly, i.e., when exhausted, it
is reused. In parallel merging (i.e., no -s option),
the lines from the last file are always terminated with
a new-line character, not from the _l_i_s_t. The list may
contain the special escape sequences: \n (new-line), \t
(tab), \\ (backslash), and \0 (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters
have special meaning to the shell (e.g., to get one
backslash, use "" -_d"_\_\_\_\" ).
-s Merge subsequent lines rather than one from each input
file. Use _t_a_b for concatenation, unless a _l_i_s_t is
specified with -d option. Regardless of the _l_i_s_t, the
very last character of the file is forced to be a new-
line.
- May be used in place of any file name, to read a line
from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
Sun Release 3.2 Last change: 1
PASTE(1) USER COMMANDS PASTE(1)
EXAMPLES
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"\t\n" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
SEE ALSO
cut(1), grep(1), pr(1).
Sun Release 3.2 Last change: 2