Shell Programming and Scripting

time to ask the folks here

say I have two files, with each has 1 column, is there any way i merge these two files and put the column in file2 as column2 in the new merged file? how about I have 3 files and put the content in file2 as column2 and content in file3 as column3?

Thanks!

e.g.

file1

a
b
c
d
e
f

file2

1
2
3
4
45
5
6

filenew
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4
e 45
f 5
.....

Yes,
use the paste command:

Code:

paste -d\  file1 file2

man paste...

e.g.
ant:/home/vbe/wks $ more 001
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
ant:/home/vbe/wks $ more 002
q
w
e
r
t
z
u
i
o
p
ant:/home/vbe/wks $ paste 001 002>003
ant:/home/vbe/wks $ more 003
0 q
1 w
2 e
3 r
4 t
5 z
6 u
7 i
8 o
9 p
003: END

cool! I knew I would get my answer, thanks a lot!