PASTE(1)                                                  User Commands                                                 PASTE(1)



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-coreutilsATgnu.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/>;

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   (C)   2010   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 'paste invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.5                                         November 2010                                                 PASTE(1)