Linux manual pages Section 1: General Commands  

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/>

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 'paste invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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.