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paste: merge lines of files

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

-z, --zero-terminated

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 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.