paste

Purpose

Write to standard output corresponding lines of each file, separated by a tab.

Syntax

paste file1 file2 [. . .]

Options

-s pastes the lines from one file at a time, instead of one line from each file.

-d delim uses delimiters from the list of characters, instead of a tab.

- causes paste to use standard input as a file.

Description

The paste command takes one line from each of the listed files and writes them out to standard output, separated by a tab. With the -s option, the paste command can also concatenate all lines from one file into a single gigantic line.