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40 .Dd September 20, 2001
45 .Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
54 utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
55 replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
56 character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
57 If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
58 still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
61 The options are as follows:
64 Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
65 characters instead of the default tab.
68 are used circularly, i.e., when
70 is exhausted the first character from
73 This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
74 or the last line in each file (using the
76 option) is displayed, at which
79 begins selecting characters from the beginning of
83 The following special characters can also be used in list:
85 .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
93 Empty string (not a null character).
96 Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
99 Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
101 The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
102 file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
110 is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
111 input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
115 List the files in the current directory in three columns:
117 .Dl "ls | paste - - -"
119 Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
121 .Dl "paste -s -d '\et\en' myfile"
123 Number the lines in a file, similar to
126 .Dl "sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\et\en' - -"
128 Create a colon-separated list of directories named
133 environment variable:
135 .Dl "find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -"
144 utility is expected to be
153 Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the