[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

[Mark Signal]

thank you

problems solved


Geraint Jones wrote:

> 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
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>Subject: [wellylug] simple super basic bash question
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>if  file1 contains "hello" and file2 contains "goodbye" and I    'cat
>file1 file2 > file3'  then
>file3 contains 2 lines:
>hello
>goodbye
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>how do I do this so that file3 contains the contents of file1 and file2
>on one line:
>hello goodbye
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>cheers
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>Mark
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