[CentOS] for loop example

Tue Jun 7 19:51:46 UTC 2016
Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>

On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 11:11:21AM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Can you look in to this?
> 
> 
> [root at centos67 loop]# cat file1
> firstname1
> firstname2
> 
> [root at centos67 loop]# cat file2
> lastname1
> lastname2
> 
> I need a OUTPUT like this
> 
> 
> *firstname1 lastname1firstname2 lastname2*
> 
Assuming your files 1&2 will be longer than 2 lines,
consider this:


paste -d' ' file1 file2 |
    awk '(NR%2) == 1 {l1 = $0; getline ; print l1 $0}'

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