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/>
       Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2013  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 8.21                                 March 2016                                           PASTE(1)