Shell Programming and Scripting

This is my long winded attempt at it. I finally got it to work. Thanks to all the guy's who supplied the simpe short solution. I will use one of them.

cnt=1
linecnt=1
for i in `cat input.file`
do
if [ $linecnt = $cnt ]
then
echo $i output.filea
let cnt=$cnt+1
else
echo $i output.fileb
let linecnt=$linecnt+1
fi
done

Try:

Code:

xargs -n2 <file | while read line1 line2; do echo "$line1">>file1; echo "$line2">>file2; done