Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to add a word from file1 to file2 accordinggly... file1 contains name of servers and file2 version of server

I need that information in a single file so that the format is

server_name : version

I been trying but havent been able to figure out how to search for a file using sed...

PLEASE HELP!!

if we do not know how your file1 and file2 look like, we cannot help to parse it.

Code:

paste file1 file2 >mergedfile

???

Code:

file1                    file2
word1            sentence1
word2            sentence2
word3            sentence3

and i need to end in separate file or file1 or 2, whatever is easier in this format

Code:

word1;sentence1
word2;sentence2

Code:

man paste

Code:

paste -d";" file1 file2

what about if i have my file1 in this format
word1
word2
word3

and my file2 is always going to be in this format
sentece2

so I need a for loop so that whenever a file2 file3 filex comes will add that 1 sentence to my file1. Or is it just easier to paste with 2 separate files.

Thank you,

All depends on what you have and what you want.

I don't understand what kind of things you have nor what kind of this you want to achieve, i need more infos as well as full example of input you have and output you want.

I may then be able to help you further.

ok...so here is my script

# Logs to each server using file, gets relase information into a file, copies
#it to harp server, deletes file.
for host in `cat $PATH_TEMP/name_of_file`
do
ssh $host sh lsb_release -a >> $host/tmp/$host_release.info
scp -p $host:/tmp/$host_release.info $PATH_TEMP/release.info
rm /tmp/$host_release.info
done




So when the script is executed for the fist time...this will be the result in the local host

list_file
server1
server2
server3

server1_file
version

final_file
server1;version

if we keep going this is what I want to have in the final_file
list_file
server1
server2
server3

server2_file
version

final_file
server1;version
server2;version

and the only thing that will change as the script uses the list file would be the serverX file, which willl have a different version and that will be combined with the 2nd entry of file 1 to be entered in final_file as the second entry.

Does that help