UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

try removing the print _; statement.

Does the example posted accomplish what you are looking for or set you in the right track? What is it that you had to go back and re-do to make it work? Can you post the solution you have?

The first example was right, I had removed one of the letters on line 5 by mistake. I'm still using the first example you gave.

I had just wanted the whole second file to print through the first file. I didn't want the line to have breaks. I was just showing an example of a file completely printing through another.

Try also

Code:

for ((CNT=0; CNT<=$(wc -l < file1)-$(wc -l < file2); CNT++)); do paste -d'\0' -- file1 <(printf "%*s" $CNT '' | tr " " "\n"; cat file2); done
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paste -d seems not to like empty separators but ignore strange control character constructs...

Thank you for the reply.

Can awk open up very big files, if it can't what else can I use?

In general, awk can open large files.

If you are having problems trying to open a large file with awk, please give us details on what you are tying to do, how big the file is, what operating system (including version) you're using, and what version of awk you're using.

I'm trying to get the file on the right to print or generated down the file on the left without the left file printing too. I don't want the left file to print at all. I also want to merge both lines as it prints down the file. Or if there is a way to print files in opposite directions creating new lines. I don't want repeated lines.

The files I am now testing are 2.5gbs each, will try to test 40+gbs later.

I'm using xfce xubuntu 4.12

My awk version is 1.3.3