On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/3/2016 10:41 PM, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > >> I need a OUTPUT like this >> >> >> *firstname1 lastname1firstname2 lastname2* >> > > An obvious solution is to use Perl. I suggest searching Stackoverflow for > a solution using that language. > yeah, you are right. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18909957/how-to-use-bash-script-to-loop-through-two-files #!/bin/bash paste file_in.txt file_out.txt | while read if of; do echo "-in $if -out $of" done my example. [root@centos67 loop]# cat file1 firstname1 firstname2 [root@centos67 loop]# cat file2 lastname1 lastname2 [root@centos67 loop]# paste file1 file2 | while read if of; do echo "$ if@xxxxxxxxxxx $of@xxxxxxxxxxx"; done firstname1@xxxxxxxxxxx lastname1@xxxxxxxxxxx firstname2@xxxxxxxxxxx lastname2@xxxxxxxxxxx thanks for your mail. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos