Name

paste — merge lines of files

Synopsis

paste [OPTION...] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is −, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

−d, −−delimiters=LIST/

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

−s, −−serial

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

−z, −−zero−terminated

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

−−help

display this help and exit

−−version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.