paste
Syntax
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.