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I'm trying to combine text files without a space. So if i use the paste command

paste file1 file2 file3 > file4

the new file created has spacing between the contents of the once individual files. Is there some trick I can do with a delimiter that removes the spaces.. like paste -d'' or something? or would I need to use awk or something to remove the spacing?

Code:

awk '{arr[FNR]=arr[FNR} $0; mx=(mx>FNR)?FNR:mx} 
        END {for(i=1;i<=mx; i++){print arr[i]} }' file1 file2 file3  > newfile

try that