paste - Windows command-line utility to concatenate the
corresponding lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list]file...
DESCRIPTION
The paste(1w) utility concatenates the corresponding
lines of the given input files and writes the resulting lines into
the standard output. By default, paste concatenates the
corresponding lines of the input files. The newline character of
every line except the line from the last input file is replaced
with a tab character. If an end-of-file condition is detected on
one or more, but not all input files, and the
-b option is not specified, paste
behaves as though empty lines were read from the files on which
end-of-file was detected.
OPTIONS
The paste utility supports the following options:
-dlist
Each character in the list is an element specifying a
delimiter character, unless the backslash character
(\) appears in it. If a backslash appears in
the list, it and one or more characters following it serve as an
element that specifies a delimiter character, described as follows:
\n
Newline character
\t
Tab character
-\
Backslash character
\O
Empty string (not a null character)
These elements specify one or more delimiters that replace the
newline character of the input lines instead of the default tab
character. The elements in the list are used circularly.
When the -s option is specified:
The last newline character in a file is not modified.
The delimiter is reset to the first element of the list after
processing each file operand.
When the -s option is not specified:
The newline character in the file specified by the last
file operand is not modified.
The delimiter is reset to the first element of the list each
time a line is processed from each file.
-s
Concatenates all lines of each separate input file in
command-line order. Unless the -d option is
specified, the newline character of every line except the last line
in each input file is replaced with the tab character.
ARGUMENTS
The paste utility supports the following argument:
file
Path of the input file. If a hyphen (-) is
specified for one or more files, the standard input is used. The
standard input is read circularly, one line at a time, for each
instance of the hyphen.
The standard input is used only if one or more file operands are
a hyphen.
The files specified by the file operand must be text
files.