paste(1)                   DG/UX 4.30                    paste(1)



     NAME
          paste - merge lines

     SYNOPSIS
          paste file1 file2 ...
          paste -dlist file1 file2 ...
          paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2 ...

     DESCRIPTION
          In the first two forms, paste concatenates corresponding
          lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc.  It treats
          each file as a column or columns of a table and pastes them
          together horizontally (parallel merging).  It is the
          counterpart of cat(1), which concatenates vertically, i.e.,
          one file after the other.  In its last form, paste 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
          tab character, or with characters from an optionally
          specified list.  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.

          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 tab character.  This option
               lets you replace the tab character with one or more
               alternate characters (see below).

          list One or more characters immediately following -d replace
               the default tab 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 list.  The list may
               contain the special escape sequences:  \n (new-line),
               \t (tab), \\ (backslash), and \0 (empty string, not a
               null character).  You may need to enquote characters if
               they 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.  The last character of the file is forced to be a
               new-line.  Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is
               specified with -d option.

          -    May be used in place of any filename, to read a line
               from the standard input (there is no prompting).

     EXAMPLES



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          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).

     DIAGNOSTICS
          line too long    Output lines are restricted to 511
                           characters.

          too many files   Except for the -s option, no more than 12
                           input files may be specified.





































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