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Manual Reference Pages  - PASTE (1)

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paste - merge lines of files

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paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

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

Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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

should give you access to the complete manual.

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