Help wanted for a linux command...

[Anon]

Hi!

I want to know if its possible to have 2 separate text files and i want to concatanate them into 1 file. I know there's a command that concatenates the second file BELOW the first one. But my problem is that i need to concatenate the file SIDE-BY-SIDE and send it to the spool. is that possible?

Thx!
Max

[reagent]

what does 'side-by-side' mean?

if you do
cat file1 file2 > file3

that will place the contents of both files in file3, but it will have the effect of 'appending' file2 to file 1

that probably doesn't answer your question. maybe you were looking for something like 'diff' that would merge the two?

p.

[Anon]

Example

File 1 = aaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaa

file 2 = bbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbb

I want file 3 : aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb

he he he

[reagent]

that seems odd.

try this

$fp1 = fopen('file1', 'r');
$fp2 = fopen('file2', 'r');
$fp3 = fopen('file3', 'w');

then:

read a line from file1, write to file 3 and write a space/tab after the line. then read a line from file 2 and write it to file 3. repeat until you reach eof. remember that file1 may reach eof before file 2 and vice versa.

hope that got you on the right track. check out the file functions on php.net

p.