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paste
Options
Examples
Localization
–d list Specifies a list of characters to be used one at a time instead of the tab
character to replace the newline at the end of input lines. In a doublebyte
locale, list can contain doublebyte characters. paste uses list circularly;
when it exhausts the characters in list, it returns to the first character in the
list. If you also specify the –s option, paste returns to the first character of
list after processing each file. Otherwise, it returns to the first character after
each line of output.
list can contain any of the following standard C escapes such as \n, \t, \r,
\b, \\, and \0, where \0 indicates that no separator is to be used.
–s Concatenates all lines from each input file together on the single output
line. If the –s option is not specified and the end of the file is detected on
any (but not all) of the input files, paste behaves as though empty lines
have been read from those files.
The command:
ls | paste –s –d’\t\t\n’
displays the output of ls in three tab separated columns.
If file A contains:
a
b
c
and file X contains:
x
y
z
then the command:
paste A X
produces:
a x
b y
c z
and the command:
paste –s A X
produces:
a b c
x y z
paste uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v LC_SYNTAX
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