Linux "paste" Command Line Options and Examples

merge lines of files

Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

Usage:

paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Command Line Options:

-d

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs


                            paste -d ...

-s

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel


                            paste -s ...

-z

line delimiter is NUL, not newline


                            paste -z ...

--help

display this help and exit


                            paste --help ...

--version

output version information and exitAUTHORWritten by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.REPORTING BUGSGNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>COPYRIGHTCopyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐mitted by law.


                            paste --version ...