paste - merge lines of files

paste concatenates the corresponding lines of a given input file and writes the resulting lines to standard output. By default paste replaces the newline character of every line other than the last input file with the TAB character.

Unless the -s option is specified, if an end-of-file is encountered on one or more input files, but not all input files, paste behaves as if empty lines were read from the file(s) on which end-of-file was detected.

Unless the -s option is specified, paste is limited by the underlying operating system on how many file operands can be specified.

If no file operands are given or if the file is -, paste reads from standard input. The start of the file is defined as the current offset.

-s, --serial

Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file. In this case if the -d option is specified the delimiter will be reset to the first in the list at the beginning of each file.

-d, --delimiters=list

list specifies a list of delimiters. These delimiters are used circularly instead of TAB to replace the newline character of the input lines. Unless the -s option is specified, the delimiter will be reset to the first element of list each time a line is processed from each file. The delimiter characters corresponding to list will be found by treating list as an ANSI-C string, except that the \0 sequence will insert the empty string instead of the null character.

0

All files processed successfully.

>0

An error occurred.

cut(1), cat(1), join(1)

version

paste (AT&T Research) 2010-06-12

author

Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>

author

David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>

copyright

Copyright © 1992-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property

license

http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html