1.\" $OpenBSD: paste.1,v 1.3 1998/09/27 16:57:49 aaron Exp $ 2.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 6.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics 7.\" Engineers, Inc. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" from: @(#)paste.1 5.6 (Berkeley) 7/27/91 38.\" 39.Dd July 27, 1991 40.Dt PASTE 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm paste 44.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm paste 47.Op Fl s 48.Op Fl d Ar list 49.Ar file Op Ar ... 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm paste 53utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, 54replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab 55character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. 56If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files 57still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source 58of empty lines. 59.Pp 60The options are as follows: 61.Bl -tag -width Fl 62.It Fl d Ar list 63Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline 64characters instead of the default tab. 65The characters in 66.Ar list 67are used circularly, i.e., when 68.Ar list 69is exhausted the first character from 70.Ar list 71is reused. 72This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation) 73or the last line in each file (using the 74.Fl s 75option) is displayed, at which 76time 77.Nm paste 78begins selecting characters from the beginning of 79.Ar list 80again. 81.Pp 82The following special characters can also be used in list: 83.Pp 84.Bl -tag -width flag -compact 85.It Li \en 86newline character 87.It Li \et 88tab character 89.It Li \e\e 90backslash character 91.It Li \e0 92empty string (not a null character) 93.El 94.Pp 95Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the 96character itself. 97.It Fl s 98Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line 99order. 100The newline character of every line except the last line in each input 101file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by 102the 103.Fl d 104option. 105.El 106.Pp 107If 108.Ql Fl 109is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard 110input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, 111for each instance of 112.Ql Fl . 113.Pp 114The 115.Nm paste 116utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred. 117.Sh SEE ALSO 118.Xr cut 1 119.Sh STANDARDS 120The 121.Nm paste 122utility is expected to be 123.St -p1003.2 124compatible. 125