PASTE(1L)

NAME
paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d delim-list] [--serial] [--delimiters=delim-list] [--help] [--version] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of paste. paste prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each given file, separated by TABs, terminated by a newline. If no files are given, the standard input is used. A file name of `-' means standard input.

  OPTIONS

-s, --serial
    Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file.

-d, --delimiters delim-list
    Consecutively use the characters in delim-list instead of TAB to separate merged lines. When delim-list is exhausted, start again at its beginning.

--help
    Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero status.

--version
    Print version information on standard error then exit.