https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215266#M169342 Hello All,<BR /><BR />I am having trouble with the following: I need to take filea and append it to fileb side by side. ie: <BR /><BR />filea fileb<BR />aaa bbb<BR />aaa bbb<BR /><BR />I need to build a file (filec) with columns from filea and fileb. I have been trying to use sed to do this. Any ideas? Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:26:24 GMT rene martinez 2004-03-10T17:26:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215266#M169342 Hello All,<BR /><BR />I am having trouble with the following: I need to take filea and append it to fileb side by side. ie: <BR /><BR />filea fileb<BR />aaa bbb<BR />aaa bbb<BR /><BR />I need to build a file (filec) with columns from filea and fileb. I have been trying to use sed to do this. Any ideas? Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:26:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215266#M169342 rene martinez 2004-03-10T17:26:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215267#M169343 Hi,<BR /><BR />Try 'paste' command. Man 'paste'.<BR /><BR />-Sri Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:30:30 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215267#M169343 Sridhar Bhaskarla 2004-03-10T17:30:30Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215268#M169344 as Sridhar suggests:<BR /><BR />paste file1 file2 &gt; file3 Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:53:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/append-two-lines/m-p/3215268#M169344 curt larson_1 2004-03-10T17:53:20Z