{"id":5243,"date":"2015-10-04T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2015-10-04T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:20:25","slug":"how-to-merge-contents-of-2-files-using-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=5243","title":{"rendered":"How to merge contents of 2 files using paste?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best command that facilitates the system admin to perform his specific tasks. Below is the list with the examples showing the paste command.<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1<br \/>\napple<br \/>\norange<br \/>\nmango<br \/>\nbanana<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2<br \/>\ncoldplay<br \/>\nwestlife<br \/>\nmichael<br \/>\nsunibigyana<br \/>\npiyush<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -s file1<br \/>\napple    orange    mango    banana<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d, -s file1<br \/>\napple,orange,mango,banana<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste &#8211; &#8211; < file1\napple    orange\nmango    banana\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d':' - - < file1\napple:orange\nmango:banana\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste - - - < file1\napple    orange    mango\nbanana\n    \n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d ':,' - - - < file1\napple:orange,mango\nbanana:,\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2\ncoldplay\nwestlife\nmichael\nsunibigyana\npiyush\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste file1 file2\napple    coldplay\norange    westlife\nmango    michael\nbanana    sunibigyana\n    piyush\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d, file1 file2\napple,coldplay\norange,westlife\nmango,michael\nbanana,sunibigyana\n,piyush\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2 | paste -d, file1 -\napple,coldplay\norange,westlife\nmango,michael\nbanana,sunibigyana\n,piyush\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1 | paste -d, - file2\napple,coldplay\norange,westlife\nmango,michael\nbanana,sunibigyana\n,piyush\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1 file2 | paste -d, - -\napple,orange\nmango,banana\ncoldplay,westlife\nmichael,sunibigyana\npiyush,\n\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d'\\n' file1 file2\napple\ncoldplay\norange\nwestlife\nmango\nmichael\nbanana\nsunibigyana\n\npiyush\n[localhost@localhost ~]$ \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best command that facilitates the system admin to perform his specific tasks. Below is the list with the examples showing the paste command.<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1 apple orange mango banana<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2 coldplay westlife michael sunibigyana piyush<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -s file1 apple orange mango banana<\/p>\n<p>[localhost@localhost [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}