12-18-2009
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Originally Posted by
njysprez
try the join command, man join
join only works for two files. I have a lot of files.
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hi
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PASTE(1) FSF 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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
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 paste
should give you access to the complete manual.
paste (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 PASTE(1)