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

AUTHOR
       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2009 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 7.2                 March 2009                          PASTE(1)