Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear friends,

I have a dataset like this
2.18 66.86 27.9
2.18 66.86 27.9
2.18 66.86 27.9
2.15 66.88 27.9
2.15 66.88 27.9


Now i have another dataset containing date coloum like this

22-12-2005
22-12-2005
22-12-2005
22-12-2005
22-12-2005

Now i want to insert this data coloum in first dataset as a third coloum

so my final data set should like this

2.18 66.86 22-12-2005 27.9
2.18 66.86 22-12-2005 27.9
2.15 66.88 22-12-2005 27.9
2.15 66.88 22-12-2005 27.9

how to get his awk will work

please help

regards
rajan

please help

cat datefile | paste firstfile - | awk '{ print $1,$2,$4,$3 }'

thank u it is working