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#  paste(1) — Linux manual page

NAME  |  SYNOPSIS  |  DESCRIPTION  |  AUTHOR  |  REPORTING BUGS  |  COPYRIGHT  |  SEE ALSO  |  COLOPHON   
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    _PASTE_(1)                      User Commands                     _PASTE_(1)
    

##  NAME  top

    
    
           paste - merge lines of files
    

##  SYNOPSIS  top

    
    
           **paste**[_OPTION_]... [_FILE_]...
    

##  DESCRIPTION  top

    
    
           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  top

    
    
           Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
    

##  REPORTING BUGS  top

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

##  COPYRIGHT  top

    
    
           Copyright Â© 2023 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  top

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

##  COLOPHON  top

    
    
           This page is part of the _coreutils_ (basic file, shell and text
           manipulation utilities) project.  Information about the project
           can be found at â¨<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>â©.  If you
           have a bug report for this manual page, see
           â¨<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>â©.  This page was obtained
           from the tarball coreutils-9.4.tar.xz fetched from
           â¨<http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/>â© on 2023-12-22.  If you
           discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
           or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for
           the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
           information in this COLOPHON (which is _not_ part of the original
           manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
    
    GNU coreutils 9.4              August 2023                      _PASTE_(1)
    

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