Question

Whatever we have cut using cut command can be pasted back using paste command but vertically.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me during an internship interview.

This key question is from Filtering Commands in section Simple Filters of Unix

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) True

Easy explanation: Whatever we’ve cut using cut command can be pasted back using paste command. This command is useful when we want to view files side by side by pasting them together. But this command pastes vertically rather than horizontally.