PASTE(1) | General Commands Manual | PASTE(1) |
paste
— merge
corresponding or subsequent lines of files
paste |
[-s ] [-d
list] file ... |
The paste
utility concatenates the
corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last
file's newline characters with a single tab character, and writes the
resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input
file while other input files still contain data, the file is treated as if
it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d
list-s
option) is displayed, at which time
paste
begins selecting characters from the
beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
\n
\t
\\
\0
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s
-d
option.If ‘-
’ is specified for one
or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is
read one line at a time, circularly, for each instance of
‘-
’.
The paste
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '\t\n'
myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named
bin, suitable for use in the
PATH
environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s
-d : -
The paste
utility is expected to be
IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”)
compatible.
A paste
command appeared in
Version 7 AT&T UNIX/32V.
June 25, 2004 | macOS 14.6 |