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# 1  
Old 07-21-2006
Joining lines from two files - please help
Hello,
I have 2 files say
File 1 has
ABC
DEF
GHI
File 2 has
123
456
789

I need output as
ABC 123
DEF 456
GHI 789

I tried awk and sed but not able to get it in the right way. Smilie
Please help. Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-21-2006
paste file1 file2 > joined_file
# 3  
Old 07-21-2006
That helps, Thanks. I am looking for some thing like, even if 123 is in a different line on file2, it has to print next to ABC.
What I am trying to do is, I am doing ls -lrt on two directories which have same files ,and printing filename and the size to a file.
Now I want those two files with filename and filesize to be in the output file so that I can compare the file sizes.
When I say paste, it works when there are exactly same files in the directories, but if there is an extra file in any one dir, the pattern changes.

Any ideas ???
# 4  
Old 07-21-2006
You could try something like this:
Code:
    printf "%-40s %-15s %-15s %-15s\n" "File" "Size Location 1" "Size Location 2" "Difference"
    print "========================================" "===============" "===============" "==============="
    for i in $(ls -1F /your/first/path)
    do
        [[ ${i} = */ ]] && continue
        FILE_SIZE_1=$(ls -l /your/first/path/${i} | nawk '{print $5}')
        FILE_SIZE_2=$(ls -l /your/second/path/${i} | nawk '{print $5}')
        printf "%-40s %15d %15d %15d\n" "${i}" "$FILE_SIZE_1" "$FILE_SIZE_2" "$(( FILE_SIZE_1 - FILE_SIZE_2 ))"
    done

# 5  
Old 07-24-2006
Thank you very much, 'tmarikle'. It really helped and I am trying to extend your script for recursively checking in any/all of the directories also under the path. Not able to make the loop work. Can you advise?

Thanks
chandra
# 6  
Old 07-24-2006
What does your loop look like now? What habe you tried?
# 7  
Old 07-24-2006
I am not able to go anywhere as I couldn't make the loop to be recursive such that if it sees a directory under it, it should go back to see if there are further directories or else execute the script you gave. But not able to get it right at all. Smilie

Need help !!!
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