Assuming your system will allow 100 concurrent file descriptors to be open at the same time:
Should work.
Per your description 3.txt will contain columns 1,2 and 3; 4.txt will contain 1,2 and 4. There will not be 1.txt nor 2.txt as you indicated you want n.txt where n is the column in addition to 1 and 2. I hope I interpreted that correctly.
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If your system will not allow 100 concurrently open FDs, then the code below should work -- not as efficient, and you will need to delete all text files if you need to rerun the programme.
Last edited by agama; 10-21-2012 at 11:46 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
DIAGNOSTICS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD