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<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> <p>For the following examples, names.txt is a plain-text file that contains: </p> Mark Smith Bobby Brown Sue Miller Jenny Igotit <p>numbers.txt is another plain-text file that contains: </p> 555-1234 555-9876 555-6743 867-5309 <p>The following command joins the two files. </p> $ paste names.txt numbers.txt Mark Smith 555-1234 Bobby Brown 555-9876 Sue Miller 555-6743 Jenny Igotit 867-5309 <p>When invoked with the --serial option (-s on BSD or older systems), the files are joined horizontally: </p> $ paste --serial names.txt numbers.txt Mark Smith Bobby Brown Sue Miller Jenny Igotit 555-1234 555-9876 555-6734 867-5309 <p>The use of the --delimiters option (-d on BSD or older systems) is illustrated in the following example: </p> $ paste --delimiters . names.txt numbers.txt Mark Smith.555-1234 Bobby Brown.555-9876 Sue Miller.555-6743 Jenny Igotit.867-5309 <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cut_(Unix)/M9qXNlAB">cut</a> – Command line utility</li> <li><a href="/facts/Join_(Unix)/bI2dS0dJ">join</a> – Command in Unix-like operating systems</li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_POSIX_commands/EEuIsUx9">List of POSIX commands</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> The Wikibook <i>Guide to Unix</i> has a page on the topic of: <i>Commands</i> <ul><li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=paste§ion=1&format=html">"PASTE(1) - FreeBSD General Commands Manual"</a>. Retrieved 2010-08-12.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"paste(1) - OpenBSD manual pages". <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/paste.1" target="_blank">https://man.openbsd.org/paste.1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"[TUHS] A portrait of cut(1)". <a href="https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html" target="_blank">https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Paste(1): Merge lines of files - Linux man page". <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/paste" target="_blank">https://linux.die.net/man/1/paste</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities". unxutils.sourceforge.net. <a href="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>