On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 11:11:21AM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Hi list, > > Can you look in to this? > > > [root@centos67 loop]# cat file1 > firstname1 > firstname2 > > [root@centos67 loop]# cat file2 > lastname1 > lastname2 > > I need a OUTPUT like this > > > *firstname1 lastname1firstname2 lastname2* > Assuming your files 1&2 will be longer than 2 lines, consider this: paste -d' ' file1 file2 | awk '(NR%2) == 1 {l1 = $0; getline ; print l1 $0}' -- Jon H. LaBadie jon@xxxxxxxxxx 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos