Usage: /usr/bin/paste [OPTION]... [FILE]... Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. The newline of every line except the line from the last file is replaced with a TAB. 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; backslash escapes are supported -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel; the newline of every line except the last line in each file is replaced with a TAB -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to: . GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'