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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Cut specific column from 2 file and merge Post 302994488 by ctsgnb on Thursday 23rd of March 2017 12:22:45 PM
Old 03-23-2017
Ok then give a try splitting into short steps like:
Code:
cut -c1-44 FILE1 >f1
cut -c1-20 FILE2 >f2
cut -c45-60 FILE1 >f3
paste -d# f1 f2 f3 | sed 's/#//g' | tee MERGEFILE
rm f?

Last edited by ctsgnb; 03-28-2017 at 07:12 AM..
 

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