PASTE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) paste invocationaq

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