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User Commands  - paste- (1)

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NAME

paste(1f) - [FILE FILTER] merge lines of files (LICENSE:PD)

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Options
Examples
Author
License

SYNOPSIS

paste [OPTIONS] [filenames] |--version|--help (LICENSE:PD)

DESCRIPTION

paste(1f) writes to standard output lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each given file, separated by a TAB character. Standard input is used for a file name of ’-’ or if no input files are given.

An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.

Unlike the C version the delimiter list cannot be a null set. A zero-length list will be treated as a blank; and if a blank is a member of the set it cannot be at the end of the delimiters list.

Standard Fortran does not currently support the same file being opened multiple times simultaneously so repeating filenames is not supported but may work, depending on the compiler.

OPTIONS

-d, --delimiters=LIST
	Consecutively use the characters in LIST to separate merged lines. When LIST is exhausted, start again at its beginning.
-s, --serial
	paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
-z, --zero-terminated
	line delimiter is NUL, not newline Delimit items with a zero byte rather than a newline (ASCII LF). I.E., treat input as items separated by ASCII NUL and terminate output items with ASCII NUL. This option can be useful in conjunction with ’perl -0’ or same in order to reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks or other special characters).
--help	Display a help message and exit.
--version
	Display version information and exit.
--usage
	Display table of commandline parameters

EXAMPLES

For example, with:

     $ cat two_numbers
     1
     2
     $ cat three_letters
     a
     b
     c

Take lines sequentially from each file:

     $ paste two_numbers three_letters
     1       a
     2       b
             c

Duplicate lines from a file:

     # Fortran does not allow a file to be open twice
     # so the C program could do this:
     $ paste two_numbers three_letters two_numbers
     1       a      1
     2       b      2
             c
     # but you have to make a copy of two_numbers to
     # do that with this program

Intermix lines from stdin:

     $ paste - three_letters - < two_numbers
     1       a      2
             b
             c

AUTHOR

John S. Urban

LICENSE

Public Domain

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Nemo Release 3.1

paste- (1)

February 23, 2025

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