Shell Programming and Scripting

listA="1 2 3 4 5"
listB="a b c d e"

for i in `echo $listA`
do
    j=`echo $listB | cut -d" " -f${i}`
    echo "$i $j"
done

#!/bin/ksh

a='1 2 3 4 5'
b='a b c d e'

echo "$a" | tr ' ' '\n' > /tmp/pa
echo "$b" | tr ' ' '\n' > /tmp/pb
for i in $(paste -d : /tmp/pa /tmp/pb)
do
   echo "[$i]"
done

#!/bin/ksh

a='1 2 3 4 5'
b='a b c d e'

echo "$a" | tr ' ' '\n' > /tmp/pa
echo "$b" | tr ' ' '\n' > /tmp/pb

paste -d " " /tmp/pa /tmp/pb

#! /usr/bin/ksh

a="1 2 3 4 5 6"
b="a b c d e f"
a=$a" "
b=$b" "

while [[ -n $a || -n $b ]] ; do
        rest=${a##+([! ]) }
        anow=${a%%$rest}
        anow=${anow%%+( )}
        a=$rest
        rest=${b##+([! ]) }
        bnow=${b%%$rest}
        bnow=${bnow%%+( )}
        b=$rest
        echo anow = \"$anow\"   "    "  bnow=\"$bnow\"
done
exit 0