PASTE(1)                                  User Commands                                  PASTE(1)



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

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report paste  transla-
       tion bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  }  2013  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.



GNU coreutils 8.22                         October 2018                                  PASTE(1)