.TH PASTE 1L "GNU Text Utilities" "FSF" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
paste \- merge lines of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B paste
[\-s] [\-d delim-list] [\-\-serial] [\-\-delimiters=delim-list]
[\-\-help] [\-\-version] [file...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
.BR paste .
.B 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.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
.I "\-s, \-\-serial"
Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file.
.TP
.I "\-d, \-\-delimiters delim-list"
Consecutively use the characters in
.I delim-list
instead of TAB to separate merged lines.  When
.I delim-list
is exhausted, start again at its beginning.
.TP
.I "\-\-help"
Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero status.
.TP
.I "\-\-version"
Print version information on standard error then exit.