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Bash: Redirecting Input from Multiple Files

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Mitch Frazier
Oct 16, 2008

“For the sake of this example, let’s say that we want to
implement a simple version of the paste command as a bash script.
The paste command reads a line from each of its input files and
then pastes them together and writes the combined result to stdout
as a single line. Our example version will only do this for two
input files.”


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