https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040636#M907006 Paste only inserts a single character as a separator so yoiu solution will not work but you can pipe the output of your paste through sed to accomplish your goal:<BR /><BR />paste -d '<TAB>' file1.txt file2.txt | sed 's/<TAB>/<TAB><TAB>/g'<BR /><BR />Note: <TAB> is actually a tab character.<BR /></TAB></TAB></TAB></TAB></TAB> Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:06:58 GMT A. Clay Stephenson 2003-08-04T15:06:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040635#M907005 Hi,<BR />Currently I am doing:<BR />paste -d "\t" file1.txt file2.txt<BR /><BR />However, I need to separate the lines from two files by two tabs not only one. "\t\t" is not working. Can you please suggest something? Thank you very much.<BR /> Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:54:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040635#M907005 Sharvil Desai 2003-08-04T14:54:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040636#M907006 Paste only inserts a single character as a separator so yoiu solution will not work but you can pipe the output of your paste through sed to accomplish your goal:<BR /><BR />paste -d '<TAB>' file1.txt file2.txt | sed 's/<TAB>/<TAB><TAB>/g'<BR /><BR />Note: <TAB> is actually a tab character.<BR /></TAB></TAB></TAB></TAB></TAB> Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:06:58 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040636#M907006 A. Clay Stephenson 2003-08-04T15:06:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040637#M907007 :-) Thank you for clearing that up. Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:29:47 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/paste-command/m-p/3040637#M907007 Sharvil Desai 2003-08-04T17:29:47Z