The purpose of following script is to merge several tables and put them in an specific directory by using `paste` command.

```
for i in {1..30}
 do
 paste ./directory"$i"/table1.txt table2.txt ... table20.txt > ./merged_tables/tables_directory"$i".txt
done 

```

I am getting this error:

```
 paste: file table2: No such file or directory

```

By writing the path to each table it would work but I do not want to write the path too many times, so is there any other way to do that without write the path to each table? Thanks in advance