.TH PASTE 1
.SH NAME
paste \- merge lines of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B paste
[\-s] [\-d delim-list] [\-\-serial] [\-\-delimiters=delim-list]
[file...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
.BR paste .
.B paste
prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each
given file, separated by TABs, terminated by a newline.  If no files
are given, the standard input is used.  A file name of `-' means
standard input.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
.I "\-s, \-\-serial"
Paste the lines of one file at a time rather than one line from each file.
.TP
.I "\-d, \-\-delimiters delim-list"
Consecutively use the characters in
.I delim-list
instead of TAB to separate merged lines.  When
.I delim-list
is exhausted, start again at its beginning.
.PP
The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `\-\-',
for compatibility with previous releases.  Eventually support for `+'
will be removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.