paste

英[peɪst] 美[pest]

n.Dough; paste; meat (or fish, etc.) sauce (for spread or cooking) ); (for making artificial gemstones) lead glass

vt. Paste, post; cover with... on

Third person singular: pastes Plural: pastes Present participle: pasting Past tense: pasted

Linux paste command syntax

Function: The paste command is used to merge columns of files. The paste command will merge each file column-by-column.

Syntax: paste [-s][-d <spacing character>][--help][--version][file...]

Linux paste command example

Use the paste command to merge the files "file", "testfile", and "testfile1" and enter the following command:

paste file testfile testfile1 #合并指定文件的内容

However, before executing the above command, first use the "cat" command to merge the 3 files. Check the content of the file, and the display is as follows:

$ cat file                  #file文件的内容  xiongdan 200  lihaihui 233  lymlrl 231  $ cat testfile

#The content of the testfile file liangyuanm ss

$ cat testfile1             #testfile1文件的内容  huanggai 56  zhixi 73

When the merge command "$ paste file testfile testfile1" is executed, the program interface The merged file contents will be displayed as follows:

xiongdan 200  lihaihui 233  lymlrl 231  liangyuanm  ss  
huanggai 56  zhixi 73

If you use the parameter "-s" of the paste command, you can merge multiple lines of data in a file into one line for display. For example, to merge three lines of data in the file "file" into one line of data for display, enter the following command

$ paste -s file             #合并指定文件的多行数据

After the above command is executed, the displayed data content is as follows:

xiongdan 200 lihaihui 233 lymlrl 231