## 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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info (aq(coreutils) paste invocation(aq