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            1 .Dd October 8, 2015
            2 .Dt PASTE 1
            3 .Os sbase
            4 .Sh NAME
            5 .Nm paste
            6 .Nd merge lines of files in parallel or sequentially
            7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
            8 .Nm
            9 .Op Fl s
           10 .Op Fl d Ar list
           11 .Ar file ...
           12 .Sh DESCRIPTION
           13 .Nm
           14 reads single lines from each
           15 .Ar file
           16 and writes them into one line, replacing
           17 .Sy \en
           18 with
           19 .Sy \et
           20 except from the last
           21 .Ar file .
           22 This process is repeated until each
           23 .Ar file
           24 is starved, treating zero-reads as empty lines along the way.
           25 .Pp
           26 If
           27 .Ar file
           28 is '-',
           29 .Nm
           30 interprets it as stdin.
           31 .Sh OPTIONS
           32 .Bl -tag -width Ds
           33 .It Fl d Ar list
           34 Replace
           35 .Sy \en
           36 with escaped characters from
           37 .Ar list
           38 by cycling through it.
           39 .It Fl s
           40 Read each
           41 .Ar file
           42 sequentially instead of in parallel.
           43 .El
           44 .Sh SEE ALSO
           45 .Xr cut 1
           46 .Sh STANDARDS
           47 POSIX.1-2013.