On 27 December 2016 at 22:49, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Reading lines from 2 files in such a way that each iteration > lets me read the next line from each file so that the items > read from each file are in sync as far as line number is concerned. > Is this "doable"? Maybe a little out of the box, but far simpler than the other solutions so far if it'll do what you need: egrep -Hn . <file1> <file2> | sort -t: -k2 | cut -d: -f3- It'll work with any number of input files, wildcards, and you play with the sort/cut parts to get more descriptive output if you want as well, e.g: egrep -Hn . <file1> <file2> ... <filen> | sort -t: -k2 | cut -d: -f1,3- Andy -- The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
