Help with Combining Content of Two files - Shell Programming and Scripting

pisang · #6 (**permalink**) 05-27-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

if you have Python

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
file1=open("file1").read().split("\n")
file1=[i for i in file1 if i.strip() !="" ]
file2=open("file2").read().split("\n\n")
for item in zip(file1,file2):
    print item[0],"\n",''.join(item[1]),"\n"

output

Code:

# ./test.py
Mr Smith
No 4 Jln Empat
Kuala Lumpur

Mr John
No 213 Tmn Bunga
Kedah

Ms Linda
No 1 Kampung Bukit
Malaysia

Thanks Ghostdog!