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PASTE(1) User Commands PASTE(1)

NAME

paste - manual page for paste 8.32

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.

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'

AUTHOR

Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 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.

August 2022 GNU coreutils 8.32