[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

[Geraint Jones]

 echo `cat file1` `cat file2` > file3

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz on behalf of Mark Signal
Sent: Mon 20/12/2004 9:53 PM
To: Wellylug
Subject: [wellylug] simple super basic bash question



if  file1 contains "hello" and file2 contains "goodbye" and I    'cat
file1 file2 > file3'  then
file3 contains 2 lines:
hello
goodbye

how do I do this so that file3 contains the contents of file1 and file2
on one line:
hello goodbye

cheers



Mark




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