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- NAME
- paste - horizontally concatenate two files.
-
- SYNOPSIS
- paste [-paste] [-b <string>] [-<n>] [file1] [file2]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Paste will append to the lines of <file1> the corresponding lines
- of <file2>, with an optional string between them. Paste writes
- to standard output.
-
- The following flags are recognized by paste.
-
- -p <file1> does not exist (<string> is prepended to each line.)
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- -a <file2> does not exist (<string> is appended to each line.)
-
- -s Do not print <string> with lines from only one file.
-
- -t An option to resolve the ambiguous command "paste <file>".
- The -t flag forces <file> to trail standard input. I.e.,
-
- "paste <file>"
- is equivalent to "paste <file> <stdin>"
-
- "paste -t <file>"
- is equivalent to "paste <stdin> <file>".
-
- -e Do not print <string> if both input lines are empty
- (i.e., that contain no characters but '\n'.)
-
- -b Indicates that a string of characters follow. The string
- is inserted between each line of <file1> and <file2>. The
- string may contain all the standard escape codes with the
- exception of '\0'. The escape sequence '\s' is also known
- to represent a blank. Blanks may also be imbedded in a
- string by enclosing the string in quotes.
-
- -<n> Print n lines of <file1> before appending lines of <file2>.
- If n is negative (e.g., "paste --3") then n lines of
- <file2> will be printed first.
-
-
- BUGS
- On some systems, you'll have to use an escape sequence to
- represent capital letters in "string". Also, a quoted string
- with multiple blanks may have them reduced to single blanks
- on systems that do not recognize quote marks as special. Use
- the escape sequences '\s' or '\ '.
-
- As of this writing, the standard escape sequences are:
- \b backspace
- \f formfeed
- \n newline
- \r carriage return
- \t tab
- \0 Null character (not allowed in string argument)
- \\ literal backslash
- \" literal quote mark
- \' literal apostrophe
- \ddd bit pattern, consisting of 1 to 3 octal digits
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- Escape sequences special to paste:
- \s space
-
- A backslash followed by any other character merely represents
- that character.
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- AUTHOR
- John M. Gamble, January, 1984
- 2550 Yeager Road, #15-2
- West Lafayette, IN 47906
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- Updated for UNIX April, 1986
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- Tested 12/3/86 by Ray Duncan with Microsoft C and MS-DOS 3.1
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