On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 01:09:21PM +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >>> "JD" == Jude DaShiell writes: > > > If what's wanted here is a horizontal join of tables paste(1) might be > > I am not sure what paste(1) means here. Could you please explain? Paste is a classical UNIX command to "join" (not really in the SQL sense, just by sequence number) files consisting of lines. The "(1)" is the customary way of hinting at the man section (1, aka "Executable programs and shell commands") where the doc is to be found. Just do "man paste" in a shell. Cheers -- t