Question

_____ option is used with paste command if we want to specify our own delimiter.

(a) -d

(b) -c

(c) -a

(d) -e

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Answer 1

The correct option is (a) -d

The explanation: Whatever we’ve cut using cut command can be pasted back using paste command. paste command also uses tab as the default field delimiter but we can use our own field delimiter using -d option with paste command. For example,