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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looping through 2 files simultaneously Post 302379021 by gaurav1086 on Wednesday 9th of December 2009 09:49:51 AM
Old 12-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
Code:
# paste -d "" first.txt num.txt
paste: no delimiters specified

To be POSIX compliant.
Code:
# paste -d \0 first.txt num.txt
MRO0122065
MRO0112065
MRO0112066
MRO0113067

hello .
which unix are you using. It works on GNU/Linux though.
Anyways thanks for the info.
Regards
 

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PASTE(1)							   User Commands							  PASTE(1)

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