On Saturday 24 May 2008, 06:18, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hi. > > I got a datasheet from my colleague in MS Excel format and I intend to > process that file with my awk/sed knowledge. The problem is: he sent > me two Excel files each with 2134 records, in fact there should be > only one excel file with 2134 rows and 295 columns, but MS Excel can > only handle 256 data columns, so he split the datasheet vertically so > he can manage to send to me. > > Now I saved both file to tab-separated-value format, how do I join > them?
IIUC, you have two files like this: file1: col1,col2,col3, ... ,col256 (2134 rows) file2: col257,col258, ... ,col295 (2134 rows) If my understanding is correct, then paste -d, file1 file2 should do what you want. Hope this helps. -- [email protected] mailing list
