[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

Mark Signal mark at databackup.co.nz
Tue Dec 21 07:42:45 NZDT 2004


I had never heard of paste

if I try your syntax I get  bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<f'

this seems to work fine however
[root at wevil root]# paste -d " " file1 file2
hello goodbye

thanks for responding
I have learnt a VAST amount from this list.

cheers

Mark



Brent Wood wrote:

>--- Geraint Jones <g.jones at french-maid.co.nz> wrote:
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>> echo `cat file1` `cat file2` > file3
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>OK if file1 & file2 only have one line in each. Otherwise try
>
> paste -d " " <file1> <file2> 
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>paste writes corresponding lines from file1 & file2 to stdout, separated by a
>tab. The -d option allows you to specify the delimiter to use, in the example
>above, use a space instead of a tab.
>
>Cheers,
>  
>  Brent
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>
>>________________________________
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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
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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
>>
>>how do I do this so that file3 contains the contents of file1 and file2
>>on one line:
>>hello goodbye
>>
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