SH: two variables in for loop - Shell Programming and Scripting

cfajohnson · #4 (**permalink**) 07-30-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcpascual

Thanks, I need to re-qualify my question:

what if its not a number and you can't do math on it?

e.g.
list1:
mary
eve
delilah

list2:
joseph
adam
samson

output:
mary joseph
adam eve
samson delilah

for i in `cat list1`; ... for j in `cat list2`; ... do ... print $i $j ... done

any way around this?

Code:

set -f
IFS='
'
set -- $( cat list2 )
for i in `cat list1`
do
  printf "%s %s\n" "$i" "$1"
  shift
done