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paste — Merge lines of files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/pas

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Problem

How to use the paste command: Merge lines of files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/paste-invocation.html>.

Solution

paste — Merge lines of files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/paste-invocation.html>.

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}}

Code Snippets

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}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/paste

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