NAME

paste − merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

paste [−s] [−d delim-list] [−−serial] [−−delimiters=delim-list] [−−help] [−−version] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of paste.  paste prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each given file, separated by TABs, terminated by a newline.  If no files are given, the standard input is used.  A file name of ‘-’ means standard input. 

OPTIONS

−s, −−serial
Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file.

−d, −−delimiters delim-list
Consecutively use the characters in delim-list instead of TAB to separate merged lines.  When delim-list is exhausted, start again at its beginning. 

−−help
Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero status.

−−version
Print version information on standard output then exit.