Question

I have a couple of files containing a value in each line.

EDIT :

I figured out the answer to this question while in the midst of writing the post and didn’t realize I had posted it by mistake in its incomplete state.

I was trying to do:

paste -d ',' file1 file2 file 3 file 4 > file5.csv 

and was getting a weird output. I later realized that was happening because some files had both a carriage return and a newline character at the end of the line while others had only the newline character. I got to always remember to pay attention to those things. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Answer 1

file 1:

 1 2 3 

file2:

 2 4 6 

paste --delimiters=\; file1 file2 

Will yield:

 1;2 3;4 5;6