>>>>> Jim Robinson <[email protected]> >>>>> writes:
> I don't think I can use paste to compute the difference between income and > expenses, and I don't think I know how to use paste w/o putting the data > into files. If you have bash or zsh, this will work: paste <(first command) <(second command) The functionality of <(command) is: run command, capture the output a file in /tmp, pass that filename in place of <(command), then delete the temp file after execution of the command. John
