Paste many files with different row number in one file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi everybody
I am trying to merge many files in one files using paste or pr command but I am not able to resolve this issue.
The file are tab delimited like these:

1    4721519    4723118
1    5022468    5024918
1    7093519    7098118

2    19736573    19741172
2    21907973    21910572
2    22915182    22920279
2    22927075    22928479

3    5201000    5204399
3    6950250    6951199
3    7416800    7418599
3    7514200    7516799
3    8147000    8148799

The problem consist in maintening the columns separated after paste command, like this;

1    4721519    4723118    2    19736573    19741172    3    5201000    5204399
1    5022468    5024918    2    21907973    21910572    3    6950250    6951199
1    7093519    7098118    2    22915182    22920279    3    7416800    7418599
            2    22927075    22928479    3    7514200    7516799
                        3    8147000    8148799

The paste command does not work for me

paste file1 file2 > file3

or

 paste -d'\t' file1 file2 > file3

because my ouput is like that:

1    4721519    4723118    2    19736573    19741172    3    5201000    5204399
1    5022468    5024918    2    21907973    21910572    3    6950250    6951199
1    7093519    7098118    2    22915182    22920279    3    7416800    7418599
    2    22927075    22928479    3    7514200    7516799
            3    8147000    8148799

do you have any ideas?

Thank you

2

pr seems to do the job quite well, I don't see the problem. The files are nicely alingned, separated by tabs:

$ pr -m -t file1 file2 file3
1    4721519    4723118 2    19736573    197411 3    5201000    5204399
1    5022468    5024918 2    21907973    219105 3    6950250    6951199
1    7093519    7098118 2    22915182    229202 3    7416800    7418599
                        2    22927075    229284 3    7514200    7516799
                                                3    8147000    8148799

Edit: nevermind, I forgot about the tabs in the input file...

3

Hi,
You must give all file to one step, example with your 3 files input (and ';' either '\t' to show):

$ paste -d';' file1 file2 file3
1    4721519    4723118;2    19736573    19741172;3    5201000    5204399
1    5022468    5024918;2    21907973    21910572;3    6950250    6951199
1    7093519    7098118;2    22915182    22920279;3    7416800    7418599
;2    22927075    22928479;3    7514200    7516799
;;3    8147000    8148799

We can see that field is respected.

Regards.

4

try running strings on the files first and/or use a different formatting options...like piping the output to awk or use printf

5

Hi all
with my files neither paste or pr seems to work..
Because maybe is a formatting error I will give you some of my files.
Could you try please to use these files?

Best