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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to join flat files together under unix Post 61720 by Neo on Monday 7th of February 2005 09:58:37 PM
Old 02-07-2005
Thanks, bhargav. Smilie

Code:
www# cat filea fileb
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
fff
www# paste filea fileb | sed "s/   .//"
aaa     ddd
bbb     eee
ccc     fff

xli, you might want to redirect to a file:

Code:
paste filea fileb | sed "s/   .//"  > filec

 

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join(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  join(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
join - Create a string by joining together list elements SYNOPSIS
join list ?joinString? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The list argument must be a valid Tcl list. This command returns the string formed by joining all of the elements of list together with joinString separating each adjacent pair of elements. The joinString argument defaults to a space character. EXAMPLES
Making a comma-separated list: set data {1 2 3 4 5} join $data ", " => 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Using join to flatten a list by a single level: set data {1 {2 3} 4 {5 {6 7} 8}} join $data => 1 2 3 4 5 {6 7} 8 SEE ALSO
list(1T), lappend(1T), split(1T) KEYWORDS
element, join, list, separator ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl join(1T)
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