PASTE(1) General Commands Manual PASTE(1) NAME paste - Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. SYNOPSIS paste [-s|--serial] [-d|--delimiters] [-z|--zero-terminated] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [FILE] DESCRIPTION Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. OPTIONS -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel -d, --delimiters reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version [FILE] [default: -] VERSION v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0 2026-04-07 PASTE(1)