Add two files {But keep their respective order}..

[arsenal1]

Hi,
I would like to add two files together {Keeping their respective ordering}..

e.g. file 'a' contains
hi
welcome to

file 'b' contains
bob
linuxforums

so that file 'c' contains
hi
bob
welcome to
linuxforums

If I use 'cat' the contents of file 'b' are appended to the bottom of file 'a'.

I also tried using $ sed a\ fileb filea > filec {But fileb was interpreted as text as opposed to the contents of fileb}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. {This is my first post }

Thanks
Stephen.

[likwid]

You can do this with join, but beware the utility is a major PITA.

[wje_lf]

You can do this with:

paste -d "\n" filename1 filename2

likwid, how would you do this with join? I looked at the man page, and just don't see that happening.

[Franklin52]

Why not simply with cat?

cat a b > c

Regards

[wje_lf]

Because suppose you have two files. File a contains this:

a1
a2
a3

and file b contains this:

b1
b2
b3

If you cat them you get this:

a1
a2
a3
b1
b2
b3

and the OP wanted this:

a1
b1
a2
b2
a3
b3

[Franklin52]

Oh my, I didn't read the question carefully , I apologize.

Regards

[likwid]

You're right wje- I was half thinking of paste heh.

[arsenal1]

Thanks very much, the past cmd worked..

{Just changed the filename order - i.e paste -d "\n" filename2 filename1}