Hi, I'm trying to combine columns of data from two text files. I'd like to take every line of column 2 from text file A and every line of column 3 from text file B. Then write every combination of lines in the two columns to a new text file. So for instance if there were 4 lines in each column from the old files, then the new file would contain 4x4 = 16 lines, each with 2 columns. Any advice or help on this would be greatly appreciated. b

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Who's going to get the credit for your homework assignment if we do it for you? If you want to get an "A" in the class, then you should ask your instructor to provide you with the answers, that way you know you'll be submitting the answer that he/she wants.

wow, fm, you are in a bad mood today :)

Here is a sample of what I'd like to do. Files A and B are both space delimited text files. File A: 1 event1 2 event2 3 event3 4 event4 File B: Smp 2007 Station1 Smp 2007 Station2 Smp 2007 Station3 Smp 2007 Station4 Output text file: event1 station1 event2 station1 event3 station1 event4 station1 event1 station2 event2 station2 event3 station2 event4 station2 event1 station3 event2 station3 event3 station3 event4 station3 event1 station4 event2 station4 event3 station4 event4 station4 Thank you for any help. Also Fishmonger this is for my research, not for a class. I hope to learn from you guys. b

#!/usr/bin/ksh for var in $(awk '{print $2}' < filea);do for var2 in $(awk '{print $3}' < fileb);do print $var $var2 done done

Forgot the explanation. Basically you are saying for every second word one every line in fila (line2) and every third word on every line in fileb (line3) print the results you find (line4).