06-06-2003
User Commands paste(1)
NAME
paste - merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
# paste one two
1 6
2 7
3 8
4 9
5 10
# cat one
1
2
3
4
5
# cat two
6
7
8
9
10
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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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 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.
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 8.22 June 2014 PASTE(1)