paste(1) User Commands paste(1)
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
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COPYRIGHT
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.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'
GNU coreutils 9.10 March 2026 paste(1)
coreutils 9.10 - Generated Thu Apr 2 15:20:21 CDT 2026