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The options are as follows:
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Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
characters instead of the default tab.
The characters in
list
are used circularly, i.e., when
list
is exhausted the first character from
list
is reused.
This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
or the last line in each file (using the
The following special characters can also be used in list:
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\n | newline character |
\t | tab character |
\\ | backslash character |
\0 | Empty string (not a null character). |
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
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Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
order.
The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
the
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If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, for each instance of '-'.
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '\t\n' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '\t\n' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
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