Inquiring minds want to know.... I need to take two files that I have latitude and longitude values and then combine them into one file with the values side by side separated by a space.

the first file is temp113-lat.txt and the second is temp113-lon.txt. They each have values listed in the file like the example below

<temp113-lat.txt>
2644.989500
2645.791200
2647.358600
2647.358300
2647.338700
2647.307900
2647.312100
2647.240400
2647.000300
2646.618800
2646.472100
2646.358800

<temp113-lon.txt>
5104.146495
5103.428400
5103.305700
5103.446300
5103.442100
5103.538900
5103.875200
5104.080100
5105.286800
5105.493300
5105.901000
5106.284000


I want to take these and post them into a .txt file in the following format.

<113latlon.txt>
2644.989500 5104.146495
2645.791200 5103.428400
.... ....

I am trying to write a script to do this automatically but I am missing the line with the command string to do this function. I have tried to use the "paste" command and for some reason it will not output the correct format I want. anyone want to jump in on this one for me... I am at my limit.

paste -d' ' filea fileb > filec

-d specifies the delimiter.

That is what I thought. I am not really understanding what the problem is... I did that exact command and this is what I got

[77225 loc]$ paste -d' ' temp113-lat.txt temp113-lon.txt
5105.471900
5105.626300
5104.146495
5104.146495
5104.146495
5103.428400
5103.305700

This is only one of the files and it seperated at the beginning by a space. Why would it only be pulling the data from one file? I checked both files and they contain data. Could it be due to the fact there is a process to get these files? I am including the process in the script.

grep m_lat /113/*.log > /loc/temp113lat.txt
grep m_lon /113/*.log > /loc/temp113lon.txt
grep m_lat /114/*.log > /loc/temp114lat.txt
grep m_lon /114/*.log > /loc/temp114lon.txt
cd /loc
awk '{print $3}' temp113lat.txt > temp113-lat.txt
awk '{print $3}' temp113lon.txt > temp113-lon.txt
awk '{print $3}' temp114lat.txt > temp114-lat.txt
awk '{print $3}' temp114lon.txt > temp114-lon.txt
The next line would be the process to combine the files into one text file so the other program can read them. Any thoughts?

no. it should work. are you sure that temp113-lat.txt has data?

i'd put some diagnostics following the awk scripts...
just /bin/ls -l or wc -l *

I checked both of the files and they contain data.... I am really lost on this one...

Could it be the - in the file name?

[77225 loc]$ wc -l temp113-lon.txt
52 temp113-lon.txt
[77225 loc]$ wc -l temp113-lat.txt
52 temp113-lat.txt
[77225 loc]$

i might make the file names a little more different just so it's easier to tell what's what.
maybe therein is the problem.

maybe like this:

grep junk some_file > grep_some_file

awk junk grep_some_file > awk_some_file

paste -d' ' awk_some_file awk_some_other_file > paste_some_files



But copying everything you've mentioned -- from the original post -- and
trying it on my system - - - - paste -d' ' worked perfectly.

it looks like ~something~ is nuking that first file argument to the paste command,
or the file name is wrong maybe....