PASTE(1) User Commands PASTE(1)NAME
paste - merge lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or
when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-d, --delimiters=LIST
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
-s, --serial
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'paste invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 PASTE(1)
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PASTE(1) User Commands PASTE(1)NAME
paste - merge lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-d, --delimiters=LIST
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
-s, --serial
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
-z, --zero-terminated
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PASTE(1)
i have:
file1 contains: 123abc
file2 contains: 123 abc
i used:
paste file1 file2 > file3, and the output looks like this:
123abc 123 abc
i used:
cat file3 | awk '{print $1, $2}' > file4, result: 123abc 123
my intention is to get file looks like this:
123abc123 abc
when i... (9 Replies)
Hi,
1. How can I get around the issue with pasting more than 12 files together?
2. paste file1 file2 > file3........how can I do this with awk??
Thanks! (14 Replies)
Hi,
I rather have a very complicated awk problem here, at least to me. I have two files.
File 1:
607 687 174 0 0 chr1 3000001 3000156 -194195276 - L1_Mur2 LINE L1 -4310 1567 1413 1
607 917 214 114 45 chr1 3000237 ... (19 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on unix for the first time.
I have to write a shell script where i want to cut paste from one file to other.
File "1234.abc" is
03,12345555
16,936,x,x,120
16,936,x,x,100
49,12345555
03,12347710
16,936,x,x,115
16,936,x,x,122
49,12347710
03,12342222... (9 Replies)
Hello all. Hope you can help. I am looking for a complete command to search for a file named HOSPCHK. The file could be listed with numbers after it like it could be listed with letters after it or a combination of both or just by it self. The other catch is the file that I want to look for... (27 Replies)
if i do this in C
#define NUM 1234512345
then how come i cant print it out using
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("%d\n", NUM);
return 0;
}
well the result is -1219236538, why isnt it 1234512345 ? (7 Replies)
using paste -- sd " " via command line give sme desired output however when I use > it changes the format slightly.
Anyone any ideas as to why this may happen
Running
SunOS alps 5.10 Generic_125100-05 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 (14 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I know the command echo " " > filenamehere ; would erase everything in the document. Can the same be done, to paste words below certain text?
For example, lets say i want to paste a line below the line Server name: in apache.conf . What should be added in the script? (8 Replies)
Is there a way to use the "paste" command to combine files and have each line key off of a column? All this time I've been pasting files together and foolishly not checking the line count of each file. I have just found out that the line count is not the same for each file so the data is not... (8 Replies)
File 1 :
anupam
testing
testing123
File2:
hello
world
last try
Output file 3:
anupamhello
testingworld
testing123last try
it will be good in case we are not reading line one by one and appending...I tried like that only but it's taking time to execute.. So asking for bettr... (7 Replies)
Hi,
When I use the paste command in the terminal window it works fine, but when i try to use it in a bash script file i get errors. I'm not sure how to use the paste command in a bash script file.
my paste command looks like this
paste <( code1 ) <(code2)
thanks (7 Replies)
Hello,
I need to grep/read files from multiple directories, one by one.
I mean something like shuffling the cards uniformly.
cd /directoryA
for i in *.txt;
do
some codes
cd ../directoryB
for i in *.txt;
do
some codes
cd ../directoryC
for i in *.txt;
do
some codes
done
done... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to paste thousands of files together into a matrix. Each file has only 1 column and all the files have the same number of rows (~27k rows). I tried
paste * > output as well as some other for loops
but the output only contains the columns from the 1st and last files. The... (8 Replies)