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Old 06-22-2011
Combining three space delimited files by column

I have three space delimited files, how do I combine them by column in Unix? Thanks!
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Old 06-22-2011
paste file1 file2 file2 > file4
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Old 06-22-2011
It does not work, it merges them row by row but not as columns.
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Old 06-22-2011
I don't know what you mean. Could you post an example of the input and output data you want?

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