[SOLVED] Paste files with extended delimiter in bash

Issue

Good day people!

Today, I was wondering how to paste several files with this delimiter: ,,.

When I use like:

paste -d',,' ...

The output only introduce one ,

I need double comma for better handling csv files, Thanks in advance for any clue

Solution

If you can identify a character which is not used in the file, you can do this in two steps.

paste -d '~' file1 file2 | sed 's/~/,,/'

Obviously, if the tilde already exists in your data, use a different delimiter. A control character could be a fairly safe bet, at the expense of being slightly pesky to manipulate. (In Bash, you can use e.g. $'\001' to produce a ctrl-A, etc.)

Answered By - tripleee