paste(1)                         DG/UX 5.4.2                        paste(1)


NAME
       paste - merge lines

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

   where:
       file1  The first input file
       file2  The second input file
       list   One or more characters

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 filename.

   Options
       -d     Replace the default line concatenation character with the
              characters specified in list.  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.  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).

   International Features
       Paste can process characters from supplementary code sets as well as
       ASCII characters.

       With the -d option, characters from supplementary code sets can be
       specified for list.



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paste(1)                         DG/UX 5.4.2                        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.

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.

SEE ALSO
       cut(1), grep(1), pr(1).










































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