PASTE(1)			 HP-UX 5.0		      PASTE(1)

     NAME
	  paste - merge same lines  of	several	 files	or  subsequent
	  lines of one file

     SYNOPSIS
	  paste file1 file2 ...
	  paste -dlist file1 file2 ...
	  paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2 ...

     HP-UX COMPATIBILITY
	  Level:    HP-UX/STANDARD

	  Origin:   System V

     DESCRIPTION
	  In the first two  forms,  paste  concatenates	 corresponding
	  lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc.  It treats
	  each file as a column or columns of a table and pastes  them
	  together  horizontally  (parallel merging).  If you will, it
	  is the counterpart of cat(1) which concatenates  vertically,
	  i.e.,	 one  file  after  the other.  In the last form above,
	  paste replaces the function of an  older  command  with  the
	  same	name  by  combining subsequent lines of the input file
	  (serial merging).  In all cases, lines  are  glued  together
	  with	 the   tab  character,	or  with  characters  from  an
	  optionally  specified	 list.	 Output	 is  to	 the  standard
	  output,  so  it  can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a
	  filter, if - is used in place of a file name.

	  The meanings of the options are:

	  -d   Without this option, the new-line  characters  of  each
	       but  the	 last  file  (or  last	line in case of the -s
	       option) are replaced by a tab character.	  This	option
	       allows  replacing  the  tab  character  by  one or more
	       alternate characters (see below).

	  list One or more characters immediately following -d replace
	       the  default  tab  as the line concatenation character.
	       The list is used circularly, i.e., when	exhausted,  it
	       is  reused.   In parallel merging (i.e., no -s option),
	       the lines from the last file are always terminated with
	       a  new-line character, not from the list.  The list may
	       contain the special escape sequences: \n (new-line), \t
	       (tab), \\ (backslash), and \0 (empty string, not a null
	       character).  Quoting may be  necessary,	if  characters
	       have  special  meaning  to  the shell (e.g., to get one
	       backslash, use -d"\\\\" ).

	  -s   Merge subsequent lines rather than one from each	 input
	       file.   Use  tab	 for  concatenation,  unless a list is
	       specified with -d option.  Regardless of the list,  the
	       very  last character of the file is forced to be a new-
	       line.

	  -    May be used in place of any file name, to read  a  line
	       from the standard input.	 (There is no prompting).

     EXAMPLES
	  ls | paste -d" " -
			 list directory in one column

	  ls | paste - - - -
			 list directory in four columns

	  paste -s -d"\t\n" file
			 combine pairs of lines into lines

     SEE ALSO
	  grep(1), cut(1),
	  pr(1): pr -t	-m...	works  similarly,  but	creates	 extra
	  blanks, tabs and new-lines for a nice page layout.

     DIAGNOSTICS
	  line too long	   Output  lines   are	 restricted   to   511
			   characters.

	  too many files   Except for -s option, no more than 12 input
			   files may be specified.