paste(1) - Linux man page

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 aqpaste invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.

Referenced By

colrm(1), column(1), ksh93(1)