paste files in one

[tonivm]

Hi everybody:

Could anybody tell me how if I have several files ( each file it has one column) which each one it has this pattern name:

name1.dat  name2.dat name3.dat name4.dat name10.dat name11.dat name30.dat

If I would like create one like:

name_total.dat

in order

I have done this two options:

for i in dn_rad_flux*.dat
	do
		cat $i >> dn_rd.dat
	done

and

for i in dn_rad_flux*.dat
	do
		paste $i >> dn_rd.dat
	done

Because I would like that each file be pasted in columns. And in two cases I have a paste in one column.

Thanks in advance

 

[PHV]

Why not simply this ?
paste dn_rad_flux*.dat > dn_rd.dat

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[tonivm]

Thanks for your reply. But I tried to do like you said, but paste do not "paste" the file in order.
And I would like that when paste it do it like this:

paste file1 file2 file3 file10 file14 .... so on.

 

[p5wizard]

Well either rename the files
file01
file02
file03
...
or
file001
file002
file003
...


or else

paste file? file?? file??? >file-all


HTH,

p5wizard