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PASTE(1)		    Schily's USER COMMANDS		      PASTE(1)

NAME
       paste - pastes fields in	files together

SYNOPSIS
       paste [ d=list ]	[ options ] [ file1 ...	filen ]

       spaste [	d=list ] [ options ] [ file1 ... filen ]

DESCRIPTION
       Paste joins separate files by fields. It	is the opposite	of the program
       cut.

       Paste joins corresponding lines of files	creating a single line of text
       with a single character delimiter separating each field.	 The result is
       displayed on standard output.

OPTIONS
       d=list Where  list specifies the	list of	field delimiters used to sepa-
	      rate the fields on output.  The fields from the list are used in
	      a	cyclic way.  The first element in the list is always used  for
	      the  delimiter  after  the  first	 file.	If the list includes a
	      backslash	(\), the next character	is used	with a	special	 mean-
	      ing:

	      \n     A newline is used as the delimiter.

	      \t     A TAB is used as the delimiter.

	      \\     A backslash is used as the	delimiter.

	      \0     No	delimiter is inserted.

	      The default delimiter is a single	TAB.

       -e     Do not output empty lines.

       -s     Do  not  paste  lines  from all files but	paste all lines	from a
	      single file.  Start with the first entry from the	delimiter list
	      with the beginning of a new file.

       width=#,w=#
	      Set the maximum output linewidth (default	is to allow an	"infi-
	      nite" output line	width).

NOTES
       The maximum number of files that	you can	join together is 253.

BUGS
       None currently known.

       Mail  bugs and suggestions to schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or	open a
       ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues.

       The mailing list	archive	may be found at:

       https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de.

AUTHORS
       Joerg Schilling and the schilytools project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
       The source code for paste is included in	the  schilytools  project  and
       may be retrieved	from the schilytools project at	Codeberg at

       https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools.

       The download directory is

       https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases.

Joerg Schilling			  2022/08/17			      PASTE(1)

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