topic Re: Formatting File Output in Operating System - HP-UX

Formatting File Output

Jeffrey S. Bromley — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:04:30 GMT

Does anyone know how to take two files and combined them so the output would have the two files listed side by side.

Re: Formatting File Output

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:06:29 GMT

Hi Jeffrey:

# paste file1 file2

See 'man paste' for more details.

...JRF...

Re: Formatting File Output

Magdi KAMAL — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:15:37 GMT

Hi,

As James said, paste command merge same lines of several files or subseqquent lines of one file.

#paste file1 file2
or
#paste file1 file2 file3 ... file_n

Magdi

Re: Formatting File Output

harry d brown jr — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:24:57 GMT

Actually to get a real nice printout, use this:

pr -t -m file1 file2

Re: Formatting File Output

harry d brown jr — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:14:33 GMT

Also, with pr, you can add the column width command as in "-w200". Take the longest line of file1 and the lonest line of file2, add them together to get the "-w", otherwise pr will truncate the lines to make it fit.

Re: Formatting File Output

Praveen Bezawada — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:31:16 GMT

HI
if you want the file content to be listed side by side

ex: a.lst
1
2
b.lst
3
4
output to be
1 3
2 4
then use the below shell

count=1
while read eachline;do
awk '{ if (NR == "'$count'"){
print "'$eachline'"" "$0
}}' b.lst
done
This will produce the desired output...

...BPK...