Hi, I am trying to write a shell script that will take information from two files and combine them into another file using loop structure file a looks like this carl monday bob tuesday ted sunday file 2 is like carl 3 bob 1 ted 2 output has to be name oncall number carol monday 3 bob tuesday 1 can anyone help me im so lost

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still confised help

#!/bin/ksh # this function reads fileb and checks if the argument passed, $1, # equals field 1, the return field 2 function get_the_field { retval="" while read f1 f2 do if [[ "$f1" == $1 ]] then retval=$f2 break fi done < fileb echo $retval } # end function while read f1 f2 do f3=$(get_the_field $f1) str="$f1 $f2 $f3" echo $str done < filea