Formatting File Output

[Jeffrey S. Bromley]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeffrey:

# paste file1 file2

See 'man paste' for more details.

...JRF...

[Magdi KAMAL]

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

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Actually to get a real nice printout, use this:

pr -t -m file1 file2

[harry d brown jr]

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.

[Praveen Bezawada]

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...