paste - merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
paste [-s] [-d list] file [...]
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of
the given input
files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters
with a single
tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard
output. If
end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input
files still
contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless
source of empty
lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list
Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted
the first character
from list is reused. This continues until a
line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last
line in each
file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which
time paste begins
selecting characters from the beginning of list
again.
The following special characters can also be used in
list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
empty string (not a null character)
Any other character preceded by a backslash is
equivalent to the
character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input
file in command
line order. The newline character of every
line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the
tab character,
unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If ``-'' is specified for one or more of the input files,
the standard
input is used; standard input is read one line at a time,
circularly, for
each instance of ``-''.
The paste utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
cut(1)
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2
(``POSIX.2'') compatible.
OpenBSD 3.6 July 27, 1991
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