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paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
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 Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -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:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -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.
SEE ALSO cut(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD
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PASTE(1) General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste - paste multiple files together
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file...
OPTIONS -d Set delimiter used to separate columns to list.
-s Print files sequentially, file k on line k.
EXAMPLES
paste file1 file2 # Print file1 in col 1, file2 in col 2
paste -s f1 f2 # Print f1 on line 1 and f2 on line 2
paste -d : file1 file2
# Print the lines separated by a colon
DESCRIPTION
Paste concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files and writes them to standard output. The lines of the different files are
separated by the delimiters given with the option -s. If no list is given, a tab is substituted for every linefeed, except the last one.
If end-of-file is hit on an input file, subsequent lines are empty. Suppose a set of k files each has one word per line. Then the paste
output will have k columns, with the contents of file j in column j. If the -s flag is given, then the first file is on line 1, the second
file on line 2, etc. In effect, -s turns the output sideways.
If a list of delimiters is given, they are used in turn. The C escape sequences
, , \, and are used for linefeed, tab, backslash,
and the null string, respectively.
PASTE(1)
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)
How can I remove the last character from each line of a file?
This must be done without "funny" characters, as I want to transfer the code to/from Windows.
Any ideas? (17 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to know how, iff at all we can, we may use the 'tr' command to replace a single character with multiple characters.
eg: if i have a string valued "him", how can i use 'tr' to replace 'i' with "oo" to make "hoom".
Just replacing a single character by many.
tried:-... (16 Replies)
Hello,
I have a number of tab delimited data files consists of two columns. Like that:
File1
800.000000 0.002744
799.000000 0.002517
798.000000 0.002836
797.000000 0.002553
FIle2
800.000000 0.000261
799.000000 0.000001
798.000000 0.000551
797.000000 0.000275
File3... (19 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)
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)
I need to remove new line character from end of file.
Suppose here are content.
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
<new line>
that means file contains 4 lines but data is there in 3 lines.
so I want that only 3 lines should be there in file.
Please help (20 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
Need help. I'm a beginner in Unix. I have a requirement, need to add or append newline (\n) character in file.
Sample Data:
1|Main|Test|~#
2|Main|Hello|~#
3|Main|Unix|~#
4|Main|File|~#Output:
1|Main|Test|~#
2|Main|Hello|~#
3|Main|Unix|~#
4|Main|File|~#\n -- append only... (13 Replies)
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but for some reason I am struggling with the solution.
I simply want to replace all characters after the first 3 characters with another character, preferably with sed.
Thanks in advance.
Like this, but producing the proper number of *'s:
sed... (30 Replies)
I need to concatenate the rows that are broken (because of carriage return and line feed) in unix.
Input
123|456|789|""
987|786|"GRT
"|""
3455|896|654|456|""
457|234|"RT"|"PR
TY"|""
Output
123|456|789|""
987|786|"GRT"|""
3455|896|654|456|""
457|234|"RT"|"PRTY"|"" (16 Replies)
I have data of an excel files as given below,
file1
org1_1 1 1 2.5 100
org1_2 1 2 5.5 98
org1_3 1 3 7.2 88
file2
org2_1 1 1 2.5 100
org2_2 1 2 5.5 56
org2_3 1 3 7.2 70
I have multiple excel files as above shown.
I have to copy column 1, column 4 and paste into a new excel file as... (26 Replies)
]I would like to make the second file label 'b' print down the first file label 'a', like shifting down the file creating new lines I want it to print all the way down until the first line of the second file hit the last line of the first file. Would I have to put this into a file itself or could I... (24 Replies)