paste: line too long error while trying to paste 2 big files.

[vysakh1]

Hi,
I have 2 files each having more than 512 characters per line( say around 1000 characters ). My requirement is to paste these two files and create a 3rd file..

the command I used was

paste file1.txt file2.txt > file3.txt

This gave me an error telling

paste: line too long

I did the same in SunOS 5.8

Is there any other alternate way of doing this

Looking forward for

 

[jamisar]

do you have a c-compiler ? do you know c ? i can send you a c-code for your problem.
jm

 

[grindel]

Could you "cat" the files together?

cat file1 file2 > file3

Just a thought....

 

[CaKiwi]

try using nawk

nawk '{if ((getline a < &quot;-&quot;) > 0) $0 = $0 a; print}' file1 < file2 > file3

CaKiwi