paste.1 (778B)
1 .Dd 2015-10-08 2 .Dt PASTE 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm paste 6 .Nd merge lines of files in parallel or sequentially 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl s 10 .Op Fl d Ar list 11 .Ar file ... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 reads single lines from each 15 .Ar file 16 and writes them into one line, replacing 17 .Sy \en 18 with 19 .Sy \et 20 except from the last 21 .Ar file . 22 This process is repeated until each 23 .Ar file 24 is starved, treating zero-reads as empty lines along the way. 25 .Pp 26 If 27 .Ar file 28 is '-', 29 .Nm 30 interprets it as stdin. 31 .Sh OPTIONS 32 .Bl -tag -width Ds 33 .It Fl d Ar list 34 Replace 35 .Sy \en 36 with escaped characters from 37 .Ar list 38 by cycling through it. 39 .It Fl s 40 Read each 41 .Ar file 42 sequentially instead of in parallel. 43 .El 44 .Sh SEE ALSO 45 .Xr cut 1 46 .Sh STANDARDS 47 The 48 .Nm 49 utility is compliant with the 50 .St -p1003.1-2013 51 specification.