paste

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

COPYRIGHT
       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 PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

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

       should give you access to the complete manual.



paste (coreutils) 5.2.1		November 2008			     PASTE(1)