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[9]1.TH PASTE 1
2.SH NAME
3paste \- paste multiple files together
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5\fBpaste\fR [\fB\-s\fR]\fR [\fB\-d\fI list\fR] \fIfile...\fR
6.br
7.de FL
8.TP
9\\fB\\$1\\fR
10\\$2
11..
12.de EX
13.TP 20
14\\fB\\$1\\fR
15# \\$2
16..
17.SH OPTIONS
18.FL "\-d" "Set delimiter used to separate columns to \fIlist\fR.
19.FL "\-s" "Print files sequentially, file \fIk\fR on line \fIk\fR.
20.SH EXAMPLES
21.EX "paste file1 file2" "Print \fIfile1\fR in col 1, \fIfile2\fR in col 2"
22.EX "paste \-s f1 f2" "Print \fIf1\fR on line 1 and \fIf2\fR on line 2"
23.EX "paste -d : file1 file2" "Print the lines separated by a colon"
24.SH DESCRIPTION
25.PP
26\fIPaste\fR concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files
27and writes them to standard output. The lines of the different files
28are separated by the delimiters given with the option \-s\fR. If
29no list is given, a tab is substituted for every linefeed, except the last one.
30If end-of-file is hit on an input file, subsequent lines are empty.
31Suppose a set of \fIk\fR files each has one word per line.
32Then the \fIpaste\fR output will have \fIk\fR columns,
33with the contents of file \fIj\fR in column \fIj\fR.
34If the \fB\-s\fR flag is given, then the first
35file is on line 1, the second file on line 2, etc.
36In effect, \fB\-s\fR turns the output sideways.
37.PP
38If a list of delimiters is given, they are used in turn. The C escape
39sequences \\n, \\t, \\\\, and \\0 are used for linefeed, tab, backslash, and
40the null string, respectively.
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