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Re: Paste with null delimiter


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Paste with null delimiter
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:41:22 -0700
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On 11/03/2015 09:29 AM, julio.neves@gmail.com wrote:
> An example is better than thousand words:
> 
> $ seq 1 2 9 > odd
> $ seq 2 2 10 > even
> $ paste -d "" odd even
> 12
> 34
> 56
> 78
> 910
> $ paste -d"" odd even

This is equivalent to:

paste -dodd even

which is NOT the same as the NUL delimiter as the argument to -d.

There is no way to specify an empty string as the option to a short
option, except as a separate parameter.

This is not a bug in bash, but in your usage.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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