How do I join two files vertically without any separator? I tried to use paste -d"" a b, but this just gives me a.
Sample file:
000 0 0 0
0001000200030004
10 20 30 40
2000 4000
.123
12.1
1234234534564567
paste use \0 for null delimiter as defined by POSIX:
paste -d'\0' file1 file2
Using -d"" a b is the same as -d a b: the paste program sees three arguments -d, a and b, which makes a the delimiter and b the name of the sole file to paste.
If you're on a GNU system (non-embedded Linux, Cygwin, …), you can use:
paste -d "" file1 file2
The form -d "" is unspecified by POSIX and can produce errors in other platforms. At least BSD and heirloom paste will report no delimiters error.
paste from this suite was written by Gunnar Ritter and is unrelated to the UNIX sources.The Bourne Shell from that suite was derived from the OpenSolaris Bourne Shell, but has it's own bugs as a result from a quick and hacky port to the deficits in Linux (e.g. an incompatible wait() implementation), check (exec ps) to verify a hang that is not present in the original and that is not present in my portable Bourne Shell.
paste -d '' file1 file2 but since then, paste is the paste implementation taken from David Korn and this permits -d "".
paste because I had it and can test with it, I don't use it for "standard" or anything else.
paste gave no delimiters error for paste -d "", too.
The solution is:
paste -d "\0" a b
paste - d"" a bwill paste content fromstdin, file namedd"",a,b.paste -d "" a b.