1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics 6.\" Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 17.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 18.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 19.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 20.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 21.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 22.\" without specific prior written permission. 23.\" 24.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 25.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 26.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 27.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 28.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 29.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 30.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 31.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 32.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 33.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 34.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 35.\" 36.\" @(#)paste.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 37.\" 38.Dd June 6, 1993 39.Dt PASTE 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm paste 43.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm paste 46.Op Fl s 47.Op Fl d Ar list 48.Ar file ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm paste 52utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, 53replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab 54character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. 55If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files 56still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source 57of empty lines. 58.Pp 59The options are as follows: 60.Bl -tag -width Fl 61.It Fl d Ar list 62Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline 63characters instead of the default tab. 64The characters in 65.Ar list 66are used circularly, i.e., when 67.Ar list 68is exhausted the first character from 69.Ar list 70is reused. 71This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation) 72or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which 73time 74.Nm paste 75begins selecting characters from the beginning of 76.Ar list 77again. 78.Pp 79The following special characters can also be used in list: 80.Pp 81.Bl -tag -width flag -compact 82.It Li \en 83newline character 84.It Li \et 85tab character 86.It Li \e\e 87backslash character 88.It Li \e0 89Empty string (not a null character). 90.El 91.Pp 92Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the 93character itself. 94.It Fl s 95Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line 96order. 97The newline character of every line except the last line in each input 98file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by 99the -d option. 100.El 101.Pp 102If 103.Ql Fl 104is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard 105input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, 106for each instance of 107.Ql Fl . 108.Pp 109The 110.Nm paste 111utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 112.Sh SEE ALSO 113.Xr cut 1 114.Sh STANDARDS 115The 116.Nm paste 117utility is expected to be 118.St -p1003.2 119compatible. 120