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Old 01-03-2014
Merging data horizontally with newlines in files
Hi Everyone,

I have two files file1 and file2 with these contents

Code:
 
cat file1
AAAAA                   01/03/2014 04:01:23
BBBB                    01/03/2014 03:03:34

CCCcc                   01/03/2014 03:03:34

cat file2
1 RED
1 HHHH
1 TTTT
1 BBBBB

I tried the below command but format is not corret

Code:
 
paste file1 file2
AAAAA                   01/03/2014 04:01:23     1 RED
BBBB                    01/03/2014 03:03:34     1 HHHH
        1 TTTT
        1 BBBBB
CCCcc                   01/03/2014 03:03:34

Expected Output:
Code:
AAAAA                   01/03/2014 04:01:23     1 RED
BBBB                    01/03/2014 03:03:34     1 HHHH
             1 TTTT
             1 BBBBB
CCCcc                   01/03/2014 03:03:34


Request to let me know if you have any ideas to implement this either by using awk ??
Last edited by bartus11; 01-03-2014 at 09:10 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 01-03-2014
Code:
paste file1 file2 | sed 's/^\s\+//g'

# 3  
Old 01-03-2014
Aditya_001,
With the input you showed us, I get the output:
Code:
AAAAA                   01/03/2014 04:01:23     1 RED
BBBB                    01/03/2014 03:03:34     1 HHHH
        1 TTTT
CCCcc                   01/03/2014 03:03:34     1 BBBBB

when I use paste, not:
Code:
AAAAA                   01/03/2014 04:01:23     1 RED
BBBB                    01/03/2014 03:03:34     1 HHHH
        1 TTTT
        1 BBBBB
CCCcc                   01/03/2014 03:03:34

We can't tell whether file1 had tab separated fields or space separated fields (since copying and pasting usually converts tabs to spaces). The default separator in paste is a single tab character and that matches the spacing shown, but it looks like you want 12 spaces or a tab and four spaces.

But more importantly, why shouldn't the 4th lines from each input file be pasted together in your output? Please clearly explain the criteria used to determine which lines should be pasted together and what separator you want between data from file1 and data from file2 in your output.
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