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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.   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

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C) 2013 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 permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and paste programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
       command

	      info coreutils 'paste invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22		 February 2016			      PASTE(1)