Join two fixed length Files in Unix

gharikrishnan · March 13, 2007, 10:05pm

Hi,

Can we join two fixed length files in Unix using JOIN command? Is there any other command to accomplish the same?

Thanks,
G.Harikrishnan

Ygor · March 13, 2007, 11:01pm

Perhaps try paste.

Ebbi · March 14, 2007, 9:13am

Maybe:

cat file1 file2 >> file3

Deal_NoDeal · March 14, 2007, 4:13pm

Is this joining ? I think he wants to merge subsequent lines of files. So, he has to use "paste" to achieve that.

gharikrishnan · March 20, 2007, 9:56pm

Hi,

Basically i was looking for merge of two files based on matching key fields from two files (Sort of Inner Join in Oracle)

Thanks & Regards,
G.Harikrishnan

anbu23 · March 21, 2007, 2:11am

Can you post the sample files?

Percy · March 21, 2007, 1:43pm

Sounds like some 'grep', 'sort' and 'cat' action to me....