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)
Check Out this Related Man Page
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
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 '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
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 '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
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 : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD
Hi all,
I have the following problem and hope someone could help me.
I have 184 files, each with 5 columns (c1, c2, c3, c4, c5). I am only interrested in column 5, and would like to paste column 5 from all the 184 files into one file. I have tried the following with two files
awk... (20 Replies)
Hi,
I have a pipe delimited file with 1 million records. I need to validate each line by counting the number of delimiters, if any line fails to have the specified number of delimiters, taat line has to be sent to a reject file.
Kindly suggest.
if code provided, it is highly appreciated, and... (22 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)
I need to write a program to do something like a 'vlookup' in excel. I want to match data from file2 based on two fields (where both match) in file1, and for matching lines, add the data from two of the fields from file2 to file1.
If anyone knows something in perl or awk that can do this, I'd be... (20 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)
Hi,
I'm having trouble pulling out columns where the headers match a file of key ID's I'm interested in and was looking for some help.
file1.txt
I
Name
34
56
84
350
790
1215
1919
7606
9420
file2.txt
I Name 1 1 2 2 3 3 ... 34 34... 56 56... 84 84... 350 350...
M 1 A A A A... (20 Replies)
Hi All,
I have 2 files with a common column.
File 1 looks like
NAME START POS1 POS2
N1 1234 1236 1237
N2 1245 1248 1250
..
..
File 2 looks like
NAME STRING
N1 ABCDEFGH
N2 EFGHBCD
N3 PQRSSTUV
..
......
... (25 Replies)
hi,
i have a file with many records and each record may or may not have 6 columns.
for example
file1 :
first second third fourth fifth sixth
first second third fourth fifth
first second third fourth fifth sixth
first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eigth
if i cat the file and... (21 Replies)
I have lines like:
table10 table_name_10 table10 table_name_10
table20 table_name_20 table20 table_name_20
table30 table_name_30 table30 table_name_30
I want to change the second "table_names" in all lines to test_table_name. Required output would be:
table10 table_name_10 table10... (19 Replies)
Hi,
I'd like to intersect two files by the 4th col of the first file and 6th col of the second file. This is the code I use:
awk 'NR==FNR{A;next}$6 File1 File2
However, this is only outputting the second file lines. I'd like to have both lines in a single line separated by a tab.
Thanks in... (25 Replies)
Hello ppl
I have a requirement to split (cut in unix) a file (A.txt) which is a pipe delimited file into A1.txt and A2.txt
Now I have to join (paste in unix) this A2.txt with external file A3.txt to form
output file A4.txt which should be CSV (comma separated file) so that third party can... (25 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)