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

you might want to see a pseudocode posted here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/threa...

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