| PASTE(1) | General Commands Manual | PASTE(1) | 
paste —
| paste | [ -s] [-dlist] file ... | 
paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines
  of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters
  with a single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard
  output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
  still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of
  empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d
    listpaste begins selecting characters from the
      beginning of list again.
    The following special characters can also be used in list:
\n\t\\\0Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-sIf
    ‘--
paste utility exits 0 on success,
  and >0 if an error occurs.
paste utility is expected to be
  IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) compatible.
| June 6, 1993 | NetBSD 10.1 |