merge 2 single column files into one 2 column file

[Nik]

Hi,
Anyone know how I can merge two files, each contains a 1 column list of hosts, into 1 file where the two columns are alongside each other?

thanks,
Nik

[Andrew Lartey · Accepted solution]

paste file1 file2 > file3

[melvyn burnard]

you may want to look at the sort command for this one.

[waknine]

try the "paste" command see man pages of this command

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Marc

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

It sounds like paste(1) is the command for you, however, you may want to take a peek at join(1), also.

--Bruce

[Dan Lukac]

If the files have identical number of items you could in a script. In a script use a while command based on word count to go through the file line by line. The set up variables and set them equal to last line using the tail command and then append them to a third file.