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-coreutils@gnu.org
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     <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  redistri-
     bute  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



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