topic Playing with files in Operating System - Linux

Playing with files

Raghu Chikkamenahalli — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:51:58 GMT

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

Re: Playing with files

Jeff_Traigle — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:13:00 GMT

man paste

Re: Playing with files

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:14:56 GMT

Hi Raghu:

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

...is all you need.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Playing with files

Paul Sperry — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:20:41 GMT

if paste dosen't work try glue