Thanks for the report. Those are much appreciated. But this all works for me using paste from textutils 2.0e (an old version) and later such as 2.0.14. Although you included you version of bash you neglected to include the version of paste. (Actually, bash is not involved in the problem.)
You also indicated that you are using the Cygwin toolset. Perhaps there is a newer version available. http://cygwin.com/ Cygwin Home Page http://cygwin.com/faq/ Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent! http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for general bug reporting. Bob > I am running Cygwin with bash (GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(2)-release > (i686-pc-cygwin) > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.) > > If I make a file, temp: > a > b > c > > and another file, temp2: > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Problem 1 > --------------- > input: > paste -s temp temp2 > > output: > a c > 1 3 > > expected output: > a b c > 1 2 3 > > Problem 2 > --------------- > input: > paste temp temp2 temp > > output: > a a > b b > c c > > expected output: > a 1 a > b 2 b > c 3 c > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Artifex in Batik Group > Embedded Software Organization (EPS) > Hewlett-Packard > 1501 Page Mill Road, 1603 (6L-W61) > Palo Alto, CA 94305 > (650)857-2336 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-textutils mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
