Re; awk help

[Simon Cox]

There was a utility which would do exactly this.  
On some UNIX systems there was a command "lam" that did a line by line 
concatenation of text files.  This was very useful so I have carried 
around the source code from an old BSD system, as I have moved on, and 
installed it locally at each place.  I don't know why such a useful tool 
was deleted from the system.  Any ideas, anyone??


> Don't use awk to do this. Use pr:
> 
> 	 pr -m -t -l1 -s' ' file1 file2
> 
> This will do what you want, except it adds one line at the end of its output
> tht contains a single space. If you want to get rid of this last line
> add a sed script to delete lines that have only a single space:
> 
> 	 pr -m -t -l1 -s' ' x y | sed '/^ $/d'
> |
> |Could someone with with a greater knowledge of awk than  me  help
> |me  out  with  a  short  script that will read two floating point
> |numbers from two seperate files and write out a single file  with
> |four values on each line ?
> |

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