Shell Programming and Scripting

 
xlength=`cat x-values.dat|wc -l`
plength=`cat p-values.dat|wc -l`
ylength=`cat y-values.dat|wc -l`

count=0
if [ $plength != $count ]
 then
  while read -r a
  do
   printf -v line '%*s' "$ylength"
   echo ${line// /$a} | grep -o "$a" >> x-values.datnew
  done < x-values.dat
 let count=$count+1
 else
 break
fi

count=0
while [ $xlength != $count ]
do
 cat y-values.dat>> y-values.datnew
 let count=$count+1
 continue
done

paste -d " " x-values.datnew y-values.datnew p-values.dat > new-values.dat
rm -f x-values.datnew y-values.datnew
cat new-values.dat

# end of script