paste

paste [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.

Options

--serial, -s

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

--delimiters=<LIST>, -d <LIST>

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

--zero-terminated, -z

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

Examples

Join all the lines into a single line, using TAB as delimiter:

paste {{[-s|--serial]}} {{path/to/file}}

Join all the lines into a single line, using the specified delimiter:

paste {{[-s|--serial]}} {{[-d|--delimiters]}} {{delimiter}} {{path/to/file}}

Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using TAB as delimiter:

paste {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using the specified delimiter:

paste {{[-d|--delimiters]}} {{delimiter}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Merge two files, with lines added alternatively:

paste {{[-d|--delimiters]}} '\n' {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.