Playing with files

[Raghu Chikkamenahalli]

Hello All,
I have 2 files viz. file1 and file2. I need take each line simultaneously at a time and paste it to the third file.
For ex.
file1 contains.
10
20
30
40
file2 contains,
50
60
70
80

Now I need to have file3 as follows.
10,50
20,60
30,70
40,80

Kindly help me to write a shell script which will create a third file as mentioned above.

Many Thanks,
Regards,
raghu

[Jeff_Traigle]

man paste

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu:

# paste -d"," file1 file2 > file 3

...is all you need.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Sperry]

if paste dosen't work try glue