PASTE(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

🌸 NAME 🌸 — PASTE(1), the manual, bestie

okay so this is paste(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally here to write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. That's the whole vibe: line up your files, paste the matching lines together, TABs between them, send it to standard output. slay. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

paste [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. Yep, that's it — no secret side quest. It's giving "matching lines from each file, glued in order with TABs, over and over." Bestie, iconic behavior. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -s, --serial — paste one file at a time instead of in parallel
  • -d, --delimiters <LIST> — 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: -] — the file arguments, with the default exactly as written here: [FILE] [default: -]
okay but for real, those flags are not decorative. -s changes the paste order, -d changes the separator characters, and -z changes the line delimiter from newline to NUL. periodt. 🌟

🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

source/version: v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 · date: 2026-09-17 — bye bestie, go paste something iconic 🫶✨

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