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/>
Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2010 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.