Re: [9fans] Joining multicolumn files

[Russ Cox]

#!/bin/rc
awk 'BEGIN{
        for(;;){
                $0="";
                ok=getline<ARGV[1];
                x=$0;
                if(!(getline<ARGV[2]) && !ok)
                        break;
                print x " " $0
        }
}' $1 $2

Russ