PASTE(1)

NAME
paste - merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files

SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...

DESCRIPTION
Paste combines the corresponding lines of multiple files. Each line of each file is printed separated by a tab character (or by the characters listed in the -d option).

The argument '-' will result in standard input being read. If '-' is repeated, standard input will be read one line at a time for each instance of '-'.

  OPTIONS
paste accepts the following options:

-d list
    Define the column delimiters. Each character in this list will be used one at a time, as a delimiter for the columns. If there are fewer characters than columns, the characters will be repeated. Standard Perl special characters ("\n", "\t", etc.) are recognized.

-s  Displays the output one file per row, rather than interleaving the lines of the files.

ENVIRONMENT
The working of paste is not influenced by any environment variables.

BUGS
paste has no known bugs, unless you count the use of eval EXPR.

AUTHOR
The Perl implementation of paste was written by Randy Yarger, randy.yarger@nextel.com.

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
This program is copyright by Randy Yarger 1999.

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same.