When `-' is used in place of tableorlist1 or tableorlist2, paste.rdb reads the table from the standard input.

paste.rdb is similar to jointable with the exception that paste.rdb does not care what it is pasting together, while jointable looks for matching values in key columns and only prints those rows where a match is found.

-fc

use c (instead of TAB) as the input column separation character for both tableorlists. The output column separation matches the input column separation character.

-fnc

use c (instead of TAB) as the input column separation character for tableorlistn. The output column separation matches the input column separation character specified for tableorlist1 (default TAB).

-Dn

turn on debugging at level n, or 1 if n is not specified.

$ column Description < inventory | paste.rdb inventory -
Item    Amount  Cost    Value   Description     Description
----    ------  ----    -----   -----------     -----------
1       4       50      150     rubber gloves   rubber gloves
2       100     5       500     test tubes      test tubes
3       5       80      400     clamps          clamps
4       23      19      437     plates          plates
5       99      24      2376    cleaning cloth  cleaning cloth