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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

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 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.

See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste> or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) paste invocation\(aq