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01-31-2008

udiptya

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Shell program:Help required on file formating

I have two files file1 and file2 as shown below:
file1:
name
nameabc
bcd
nameabcdefg

file2:
age
age1111
age2345
age6743

I have pasted one file on the other with the delimiter "|" and the resulttant file is:
name|age
nameabc|age1111
bcd|age2345
nameabcdefg|age6743

but I want it to be formatted like this:
name |age
nameabc |age1111
bcd |age2345
nameabcdefg |age6743

I tried it with "\t" but since the length of name can vary the number of tabs is not constant. Can anybody give a solution to this?

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