Re: Paste with null delimiter

From	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Paste with null delimiter
Date	2015-11-03 10:41 -0700
Organization	Red Hat, Inc.
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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.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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Paste with null delimiter julio.neves@gmail.com - 2015-11-03 08:29 -0800
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-11-03 10:41 -0700
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-03 18:47 +0100
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-11-03 13:32 -0700
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-11-03 13:43 -0700
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-11-03 13:52 -0700
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-03 22:57 +0100
  Re: Paste with null delimiter Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 15:44 +0000

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