1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics 6.\" Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 9.\" 10.\" @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 11.\" 12.Dd 13.Dt PASTE 1 14.Os 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm paste 17.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19.Nm paste 20.Op Fl s 21.Op Fl d Ar list 22.Ar file ... 23.Sh DESCRIPTION 24The 25.Nm paste 26utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, 27replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab 28character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. 29If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files 30still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source 31of empty lines. 32.Pp 33The options are as follows: 34.Bl -tag -width Fl 35.It Fl d Ar list 36Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline 37characters instead of the default tab. 38The characters in 39.Ar list 40are used circularly, i.e., when 41.Ar list 42is exhausted the first character from 43.Ar list 44is reused. 45This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation) 46or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which 47time 48.Nm paste 49begins selecting characters from the beginning of 50.Ar list 51again. 52.Pp 53The following special characters can also be used in list: 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width flag -compact 56.It Li \en 57newline character 58.It Li \et 59tab character 60.It Li \e\e 61backslash character 62.It Li \e0 63Empty string (not a null character). 64.El 65.Pp 66Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the 67character itself. 68.It Fl s 69Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line 70order. 71The newline character of every line except the last line in each input 72file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by 73the -d option. 74.El 75.Pp 76If 77.Ql Fl 78is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard 79input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, 80for each instance of 81.Ql Fl . 82.Pp 83The 84.Nm paste 85utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr cut 1 88.Sh STANDARDS 89The 90.Nm paste 91utility is expected to be 92.St -p1003.2 93compatible. 94