Combining files

Enda Martin · #1 (**permalink**) 07-19-2001

Hi,
is there a way to combine 2 files together, joining line 1 from file A with line 1 from file B, line 2 from A with line 2 from B etc.

File A File B
1 4
2 5
3 6

Combined result =
File C
14
25
36

kapilv · #2 (**permalink**) 07-19-2001

just try giving

paste -d "\0" fileA.txt fileB.txt > fileC.txt

Optimus_P · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2001

i want to say that exact same questions was asked maby 3 weeks ago. try doing a search on the word combine.

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