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PASTE
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: February 2026 Index
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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.
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#past-d'-d, --delimiters=,LISTX'tty: link'/
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reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs;
backslash escapes are supported
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#past-s'-s, --serialX'tty: link'
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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
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#past-z'-z, --zero-terminatedX'tty: link'
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line delimiter is NUL, not newline
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste#past-help'--helpX'tty: link'
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display this help and exit
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste#past-version'--versionX'tty: link'
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output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Report Gentoo bugs to: https://bugs.gentoo.org/
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
Full documentation < https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) paste invocationaq
Packaged by Gentoo (9.10 (p0))
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.
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