Joining files 1

[grega]

My brain isn't working well today, so I thought I'd ask here . I have 2 files which I wish to join together. Nothing fancy, no keys to join on. Fields are TAB separated.

File 1 (3 fields)
1 john smith
2 joe bloggs
2 mike smith
3 davy jones

File 2 (3 fields)

1 some text
2 more text
2 some text
3 more text

and I want the o/p to be (6 fields)

1 john smith 1 some text
2 joe bloggs 2 more text
2 mike smith 2 some text
3 davy jones 3 more text

Any ideas much appreciated.

Greg.

 

[usige]

The simplest is to do:

join file1 file2 > joined.file

 

[vgersh99]

paste file1 file2

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[grega]

Unfortunately not. I've already tried this. It gives the result

1 john smith some text
2 joe bloggs more text
2 joe bloggs some text
2 mike smith more text
2 mike smith some text
3 davy jones more text

i.e. it appears to be treating the 2st column as a join key. Can I get join to ignore keys and just doa simple join?

Greg.

 

[grega]

Thank you vlad ... haven't used &quot;paste&quot; for years

Greg.