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01-24-2011

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Copy Paste

Hi, I would like to know how can i copy a portion of the file and paste it in another file as follows.
File 1:

Code:

    Hello, a greeting in the English language
    Hi (magazine), teen lifestyle publication
    Hi (kana), Japanese character
    Hi Records, in music, a Memphis soul and rockabilly label
    Hi, mobile phone brand of Dutch company KPN

File 2:

Code:

  12345
  45637678863
  21
  0997636t374387
  5464646

I need to copy the contents of file 2 and add it to file 1 to create a file as follows.

Code:

    Hello, a greeting in the English language 12345
    Hi (magazine), teen lifestyle publication  45637678863
    Hi (kana), Japanese character  21
    Hi Records, in music, a Memphis soul and rockabilly label  0997636t374387
    Hi, mobile phone brand of Dutch company KPN  5464646

I heard some how in VI editor we can copy and paste. But cant find out how!!

Thanks in Advance!!!!

Appu

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paste

PASTE(1)							   User Commands							  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'paste invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							  PASTE(1)