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.TH PASTE "1" "April 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.5" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
paste \- merge lines of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B paste
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from
each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.
.PP
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-delimiters\fR=\fI\,LIST\/\fR
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-serial\fR
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
.TP
\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
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or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) paste invocation\(aq