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.TH PASTE "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
paste \- merge lines of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B paste
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-delimiters\fR=\fILIST\fR
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-serial\fR
paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B paste
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B paste
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info paste
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.