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+.\" $OpenBSD: paste.1,v 1.16 2022/08/04 15:38:34 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" Adam S. Moskowitz and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
+.\" Engineers, Inc.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" from: @(#)paste.1 5.6 (Berkeley) 7/27/91
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 4 2022 $
+.Dt PASTE 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm paste
+.Nd merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm paste
+.Op Fl s
+.Op Fl d Ar list
+.Ar
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm paste
+utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files,
+replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a single tab
+character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output.
+If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
+still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source
+of empty lines.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl d Ar list
+Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline
+characters instead of the default tab.
+The characters in
+.Ar list
+are used circularly, i.e., when
+.Ar list
+is exhausted the first character from
+.Ar list
+is reused.
+This continues until a line from the last input file (in default operation)
+or the last line in each file (using the
+.Fl s
+option) is displayed, at which
+time
+.Nm paste
+begins selecting characters from the beginning of
+.Ar list
+again.
+.Pp
+The following special characters can also be used in list:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width flag -compact
+.It Li \en
+newline character
+.It Li \et
+tab character
+.It Li \e\e
+backslash character
+.It Li \e0
+empty string (not a null character)
+.El
+.Pp
+Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the
+character itself.
+.It Fl s
+Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line
+order.
+The newline character of every line except the last line in each input
+file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by
+the
+.Fl d
+option.
+.El
+.Pp
+If
+.Dq -
+is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard
+input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
+for each instance of
+.Dq - .
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std paste
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+List the files in the current directory in three columns:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ ls | paste - - -
+$ ls | paste -s -d '\et\et\en' -
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Combine pairs of lines from
+.Ar file
+into single lines:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ paste - - < file
+$ paste -s -d '\et\en' file
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Number the lines in
+.Ar file ,
+similar to
+.Ql cat -n :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ sed = file | paste - -
+$ sed = file | paste -s -d '\et\en' -
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Create a colon-separated list of directories named
+.Pa bin ,
+suitable
+for use in the
+.Ev PATH
+environment variable:
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -"
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr cut 1
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm
+utility is compliant with the
+.St -p1003.1-2008
+specification.
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+command first appeared outside Bell Labs in
+.At 32v
+and has been available since
+.Bx 4.3 Reno .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+The original Bell Labs version was written by
+.An Gottfried W. R. Luderer
+and the
+.Bx
+version by
+.An Adam S. Moskowitz .