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a bug in paste command

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From: zsugabubus <at> national.shitposting.agency
To: "Visser, Gerard" <gvisser <at> indiana.edu>
Cc: 52033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52033: a bug in paste command
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 10:42:54 +0100

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 05:23:33AM +0000, Visser, Gerard wrote:
>   Hard as it is for me to believe, it seems I have uncovered a bug in the paste command. I got unexpected/incorrect results in the course of my work (which I can describe as merging two data files from some electronic test equipment for the purposes of analysis and plotting). Attached is a tarfile of a test case with two files and a log showing the incorrect results and the version info of paste.
>    I hope this email will reach the right people to investigate this.
>     If it is a known issue and there is a workaround for me to use, please do let me know.

It is only your terminal emulator that tricks you: Your file contains
carriage returns that moves cursor to the first column, so that next
line will appear on top of the previous.

$ file e f
e: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
f: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

If you do `paste e f | cat -A`, you can see it yourself what's going on.
Use `tr -d '\r'` to remove unwanted CRs.

-- 
zsugabubus

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