Re: paste

Warham Lance Martin <[email protected]> [2002-11-15 10:39:11 -0800]:
> When I paste files containing only columns of similar numbers these
> columns are merged in some way such that columns left columns are moved
> closer together and right columns are dropped altogether.  If I have <cr>
> inserted at the line ends of the columns in the files this does not
> happen.  What arguments do I need to supply paste to prevent this "column
> merging" behavior.

I cannot recreate your behavior.  Would it be possible for you to
submit a test case to the mailing list where this is happening?

Here is my example.

cat > /tmp/x <<EOF
1
2
3
EOF

cat > /tmp/y <<EOF
one
two
three
EOF

paste /tmp/x /tmp/y
1       one
2       two
3       three

Thanks
Bob

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