Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

The paste command performs column-wise concatenation:

    $ paste file1 file2 file3 ...

Here is an example:

    $ cat file1.txt
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    $ cat file2.txt
    slynux
    gnu
    bash
    hack
    $ paste file1.txt file2.txt
    1 slynux
    2 gnu
    3 bash
    4 hack
    5

The default delimiter is tab. We can specify the delimiter with -d:

    $ paste file1.txt file2.txt -d ","
    1,slynux
    2,gnu
    3,bash
    4,hack
    5,