Tahini cuneiform document written 4000 years ago that describes the custom of serving the gods sesame wine. The historian Herodotus writes about the cultivation of sesame 3500 years ago in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia. It was mainly used as a source of oil. Tahini is mentioned as an ingredient of "hummus kasa", a recipe transcribed in an anonymous 13th-century Arabic cookbook, "Kitab Wasf al-Atima al-Mutada". Sesame paste is an ingredient in some Chinese and Japanese dishes; Sichuan cuisine uses it in some recipes for dandan noodles. Sesame paste is also used in Indian cuisine. In the
Paste (Unix) names.txt is a plain-text file that contains the following information: and that numbers.txt is another plain-text file that contains the following information: The following example shows the invocation of paste with names.txt and numbers.txt as well as the resulting output: When invoked with the -s option, the output of paste is adjusted such that the information is presented in a horizontal fashion: Finally, the use of the -d option ("delimiters") is illustrated in the following example: As an example usage of both, the paste command can be used to concatenate multiple consecutive lines into a single row: Paste (Unix) paste