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.\" $FreeBSD$ 38.\" 39.Dd June 6, 1993 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 47.Op Fl s 48.Op Fl d Ar list 49.Ar file ... 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 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 -s option) is displayed, at which 74time 75.Nm 76begins selecting characters from the beginning of 77.Ar list 78again. 79.Pp 80The following special characters can also be used in list: 81.Pp 82.Bl -tag -width flag -compact 83.It Li \en 84newline character 85.It Li \et 86tab character 87.It Li \e\e 88backslash character 89.It Li \e0 90Empty string (not a null character). 91.El 92.Pp 93Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the 94character itself. 95.It Fl s 96Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line 97order. 98The newline character of every line except the last line in each input 99file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by 100the -d option. 101.El 102.Pp 103If 104.Ql Fl 105is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard 106input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly, 107for each instance of 108.Ql Fl . 109.Pp 110The 111.Nm 112utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 113.Sh SEE ALSO 114.Xr cut 1 115.Sh STANDARDS 116The 117.Nm 118utility is expected to be 119.St -p1003.2 120compatible. 121