Combining files

[Ted Flanders]

I need help combining file1 with file2. Can someone tell me the command? I want to make file3 out of 1 & 2 and be able to go in and sort the combined info.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

This is relatively easy. Do a:

cat file1 file2 > file3

That will just combine the 2 files. If you want to sort at the same time:

cat file1 file2 | sort > file3

[Ted Flanders]

Thanks Patrick, I knew it was simple but I couldnt find the command quick enough. I actually used

sort -u -o file3 file2 file1


and got the desired results. The cat command is the one that I was looking for.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Ted

You can also append

like

cat fileA > file C
cat fileB >> file C

Manoj Srivastava

[Steve Post]

How about copying SIDEWAYS. To put file1 to the left, and file2 to the right you could do this:
paste file1 file2 > file3.