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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to use "awk" to print columns from different files in separate columns? Post 303037432 by RudiC on Thursday 1st of August 2019 10:21:09 AM
Old 08-01-2019
Try

Code:
paste <(cut -d" " -f6 file1) <(cut -d" " -f6 file2) <(cut -d" " -f6 file3)


I can't see any reason why your code snippet should stop working a line 50 - I tried and it worked up to 1400 lines.
 

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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

       -z, --zero-terminated
              line delimiter is NUL, not newline

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2017 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

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.28                                                 January 2018                                                           PASTE(1)
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