PASTE

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1L)
Updated: GNU Text Utilities
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

paste - merge lines of files  

SYNOPSIS

paste [-s] [-d delim-list] [--serial] [--delimiters=delim-list] [--help] [--version] [file...]  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of paste. paste prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each given file, separated by TABs, terminated by a newline. If no files are given, the standard input is used. A file name of `-' means standard input.  

OPTIONS

-s, --serial
Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file.
-d, --delimiters delim-list
Consecutively use the characters in delim-list instead of TAB to separate merged lines. When delim-list is exhausted, start again at its beginning.
--help
Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero status.
--version
Print version information on standard output then exit.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 10:13:02 GMT, September 19, 2022