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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

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SEE ALSO

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

Packaged by Debian (9.7-3) Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later [https://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.