Merge 3 columns side by side

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I know this is a stupid question for you guys!

half day googling and i got nothing :frowning:

i have 3 variables/files, say:

$X1 or file1:
# there is one whitespace space after each line
| 21
| 9
| 28
| 100
| 51

$X2 or file2:
# there is one whitespace space after each line
| disabled
| enabled
| enabled
| disabled
| enabled

$X3 or file3:
| 522 |
| 30 |
| 0 |
| 12 |
| 10 |

need output like this:
| 21 | disabled | 522 |
| 9 | enabled | 30 |
| 28 | enabled | 0 |
| 100 | disabled | 12 |
| 51 | enabled | 10 |

Help me please... Master!

The columns look bad here, i don't know how to fix it :frowning:
it should be nice with same width in each column.

you may find the attachment

2

You can use the paste command. Check the man page of paste.

Regards

3

oh ya, i'm using variable here,

sample$ paste $X1 $2 $x3

here is the result:
sample$ paste: cannot open

4

oh egad....

some mispelling is all...

to get things lined up nice, you could always use awk:

paste $X1 $X2 $X3 |
  awk -F\| '{ printf( "|%-7.7s|%-12.12s|%-7.7s\n", $1, $2, $3 ); }'
5

Hi ...

i could see in my machine..it gives correct answer..

paste -d "" 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt

output - | 21 | disabled | 522 |

Thanks
Sha

6

You're right guru! sorry, i was in hurry yesterday...., i'll implement this next monday in solaris system.

7

if those variables should redirect to files, i'll do that guru... i'll implement this also in next monday in solaris system ( but also i'll try in linux, in my machine)

8

Are there spaces in any of the filenames? If so:

paste "$X1" "$2" "$x3"