make 4-column

[ovince]

hi,

I have files with 2 columns of data

g1.dat
f1.dat
g2.dat
f2.dat
...

I know how to join g1.dat and f1.dat into one file with 4 columns. I do that like

awk 'FNR==NR {a[FNR]=$0;next}{print $1, $2, a[FNR]}' f1.dat g1.dat > f1g1.dat

I would like to do this in loop for each pair similarly like for f1.dat and g1.dat. I made a list with file names to be sure what I am joining like:

g1.dat f1.dat
g2.dat f2.dat
g3.dat f3.dat
....

How to use this list to join files in the loop?

thanks
oliver

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you considered using the paste command instead?

Annihilannic.

 

[ovince]

paste is ok but after pasting I can not read in the obtained file as an ASCII with some Windows programs since it put some characters in the file. unix2dos does not help

 

[Annihilannic]

They are only tabs? You could use paste -d ' ' file1 file2 to specify space as a delimiter instead.

Annihilannic.