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

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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.  

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