The paste command might be just what you need. It is invoked in this manner: paste file1 file2
Danny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandra Thorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:53 PM Subject: [vox-tech] combining data files > > Been playing with ploticus prefabs, which I agree are pretty cute. Here's > the issue that I'd like to handle now: the output from different runs of > my simulation are in separate files. I'd like to be able to present the > outputs on a single graph. I vaguely remember that there might be some > manner of bash command that would relatively easily combine data files in > such a way that the data from the two files are included as separate > columns (rather than by increasing the number of lines as would be done > by, say cat). Does such a command exist? I'd like to know if there's an > easy way to do this before I start trying to do clever things with loops > and "read," or writing a C program for this purpose. > > Thanks again, > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech