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Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)] |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:21:35 +0100 |
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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
|> <fongb@luna.laney.edu> wrote:
|> > I use paste with the delimiter set to nothing so it was the
|> > -d option with just open and then closed quotes. Whatever character
|> > came after the closed quotes showed up as the 4th column...
|>
|> This is a paste problem, not a bash problem. bug-textutils would be
|> the place to report it if it were a bug. But it's not a bug; paste
|> simply doesn't have any way of doing what you want it to do. But you
|> can get the result you want by filtering the output through tr to
|> remove paste's delimiter.
What's wrong with
$ paste -d '' ...
or
$ paste --delimiters= ...
?
Andreas.
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