Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 05:23:33AM +0000, Visser, Gerard wrote: > Hard as it is for me to believe, it seems I have uncovered a bug in the > paste command. I got unexpected/incorrect results in the course of my work > (which I can describe as merging two data files from some electronic test > equipment for the purposes of analysis and plotting). Attached is a tarfile > of a test case with two files and a log showing the incorrect results and the > version info of paste. > I hope this email will reach the right people to investigate this. > If it is a known issue and there is a workaround for me to use, please do > let me know.
It is only your terminal emulator that tricks you: Your file contains carriage returns that moves cursor to the first column, so that next line will appear on top of the previous. $ file e f e: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators f: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators If you do `paste e f | cat -A`, you can see it yourself what's going on. Use `tr -d '\r'` to remove unwanted CRs. -- zsugabubus
