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. The newline of every line except the line from the last file is replaced with a TAB.

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; backslash escapes are supported

-s, --serial

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel; the newline of every line except the last line in each file is replaced with a TAB

-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.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO¶

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

Packaged by Debian (9.10-1)
Copyright © 2026 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.