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
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2025 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.

SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'