NAME¶

paste - Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.

SYNOPSIS¶

paste [-s|--serial] [-d|--delimiters] [-z|--zero-terminated] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION¶

Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.

OPTIONS¶

-s, --serial

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

-d, --delimiters <LIST>

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

-z, --zero-terminated

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[FILE] [default: -]

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES¶

Join all the lines into a single line, using `TAB` as delimiter:

paste [-s|--serial] path/to/file

Join all the lines into a single line, using the specified delimiter:

paste [-s|--serial] [-d|--delimiters] delimiter path/to/file

Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using `TAB` as delimiter:

paste path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using the specified delimiter:

paste [-d|--delimiters] delimiter path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Merge two files, with lines added alternatively:

paste [-d|--delimiters] '\n' path/to/file1 path/to/file2

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.