Technical Notes

Manpages - 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
-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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

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

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