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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Combining columns from different files Post 302352270 by rwu on Friday 11th of September 2009 01:43:39 AM
Old 09-11-2009
MySQL
You can try the following bash script.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

exec 3<file1
exec 4<file2

while read a 0<&3; do
        read b 0<&4
        echo ${a:-$b}
done

# this line will output any remaining lines in file2
# if you don't need this, then you can take it out
cat <&4

Last edited by rwu; 09-11-2009 at 03:49 AM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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SEE ALSO

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