You actually mean to output the first file to the printer and then to reposition the paper to the first line and print the second file on a line by line basis starting at the first free print position on the line then I think that you are asking for quite a lot.
I'm going to go with the earlier contributors to this thread and suggest that paste is your best option at the moment.
You don't say anything about the system, not too mention the printer. A 4Gb file given your example of 6 chars per line would run to roughly 8 Million pages, this is going to take some time to print. So repositioning all the pages in the right order and running through the printer would be quite a task not to mention somewhat time consuming.
It starts to get really complex if you want to print a file and then run the same paper through the printer a second time printing at potentially a different start position for each line.
Regards
Gull04
How much time? I'm not worried about how much time it will take. I know it will take a some time to complete. I agree that paste will be the best option for the task. I'm using xubuntu 4.12 and CentOS-6.9-i386. So is it possible to do this task and how would I set up the cmd or bash file?
Last edited by bigvito19; 09-12-2019 at 12:58 PM..
Your requirements seem to be changing with every post that you make, can you show us some of your data.
You originally wanted to print two files with the contents side by side, now you want to print the first file in it's entireity with the first line of the second file appended to the end of each line - is this correct?
Your requirements seem to be changing with every post that you make, can you show us some of your data.
You originally wanted to print two files with the contents side by side, now you want to print the first file in it's entireity with the first line of the second file appended to the end of each line - is this correct?
Gull04
No I been wanted to print the first file entirely and then print the second file side by side making new lines as comes down the first file. I made a few examples.
I have files named with different prefixes. From each I want to extract the first line containing a specific string, and then print that line along with the prefix.
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list.txt
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table2
table3
testfile.txt
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