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
--help display this help and exit
--version
 output version information and exit

AUTHOR


Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS


Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT


Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

SEE ALSO


The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'paste invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.

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