paste - Man Page

• Join all the lines into a single line, using TAB as delimiter: paste -s path/to/file
• Join all the lines into a single line, using the specified delimiter: paste -s -d delimiter path/to/file
• Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using TAB as delimiter: paste path/to/file1 path/to/file2
• Merge two files side by side, each in its column, using the specified delimiter: paste -d delimiter path/to/file1 path/to/file2
• Merge two files, with lines added alternatively: paste -d '\n' path/to/file1 path/to/file2

tldr.sh

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

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.

-d,  --delimiters=LIST

reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

-s,  --serial

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

-z,  --zero-terminated

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

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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.

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'

colrm(1), column(1), ksh93(1), wl-clipboard(1).