tar xzf Yes_I_Know_IT-EP23.tar.gz
cd EP23
The paste command does the exact opposite: it merges several input files on a line-by-line basis to produce a new delimited text file from them.
How is it related to other commands?
I already mentioned in the introduction the cut command that can be used to split delimited or fixed-width text files in individual columns that can later be merged back using the paste command. Something that can be useful when you need, for example, to re-order the columns of a table.
But the paste command identifies the corresponding data based only on their physical position in the file (their "line number"). Sometimes though, we would like to merge data based on their content. If that’s your need, I suggest you take a look at the join utility instead.
How can I take the most of this video?
I encourage you to download the files used on the video so you will be able to try the same commands as me on your own system.
The link above will allow you to download a gzipped tar archive of the files used in the video. To extract the content of that archive on your system, you can use the command:
Time links
If you don’t have the time to watch the video entirely, here are few links to jump directly to the section that interests you the most:
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