Extra tab or spacing during pasting 3 lines

[Ngoh Chean Siung]

Hi,

Below is my script:

paste /u/sits/bin/base /u/sits/bin/userid_file /u/sits/bin/history > /u/sits/bin/newbase

1) Content of "base" is ll /home/
2) Content of "userid_file" is example abc
3) Content of "history" is /.sh_history

Question
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After executing this script, the output that I get is

/home/ abc /.sh_history

How to eliminate the tap or space before and after the user id "abc"?

The output that I want is /home/abc/.sh_history

regards.

[Thierry Poels_1 · Accepted solution]

hi,

simply replace the delimiter:

paste -d"" file1 file2 file3

regards,
Thierry Poels.

[Ngoh Chean Siung]

Hi,

Thanks.

I think there is space after -d

regards

[Thierry Poels_1]

a space after "-d" and the delimiter is allowed but not neccessary.

no space between the quotes or you're back on square one.

regards,
Thierry.