PASTE
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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
- --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/>
 
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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.