Bryan Harris wrote: > > I'm interested in doing the equivalent of a horizontal "cat" on a bunch of > files. That is, instead of listing them one after another, I'd like them > "cat"ted next to each other horizontally (tab separated). > > e.g. > > file t1 > 0 > 1 > 2 > > file t2 > 10 15 > 11 > 12 > 13 > 14 > > file t3 > 20 > 21 > > % hcat t1 t2 t3 > 0 10 15 20 > 1 11 21 > 2 12 > 13 > 14 > > I'd like it to be able to work on any number of files, and they might be > huge (20+ MB). I was thinking it'd be good to open up all the files at > once, and write out the new file one line at a time, but I can't figure > out how to set up an array of filehandles. I'm not sure if that's the > easiest way... > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
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