Manual: gnupaste
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
-z, --zero-terminated
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
Full documentation
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'
Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
GNU coreutils 9.7 January 2026 PASTE(1)