joining text file with cat and bash

Question

so, i have two text file containing

title1
title2

stored in title.txt

and

data1
data2

stored in data.txt

and i'd like to join it with cat, so it gonna look like this

title1 | data1
title2 | data2

but, the regular cat title.txt data.txt > out.txt turns the out.txt file into

title1
title2
data1
data2

i need help on using the cat so the file can look like this:

title1 | data1
title2 | data2

any answer will be appreciated

Thanks

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '13 at 07:55

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Try saying:

paste -d'|' title.txt data.txt

For your input, it should return:

title1|data1
title2|data2

answered Oct 07 '13 at 07:55

devnull

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@user1072976 Did you try `paste -d'|' file1 file2 file3`? – devnull Oct 07 '13 at 08:18
i tried it, it works, but, howeverm it leaves another line containing " | | " ex: title1|data1 | | – user1072976 Oct 07 '13 at 08:24
@user1072976 That's because you have extra blank lines in the input files. – devnull Oct 07 '13 at 08:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 07 '13 at 08:14

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Use while loop to read from both

while IFS= read -r line && IFS= read -r line1 <&3;
     do         
        title=`echo -ne $line`;
        data=`echo -ne "$line1"`;
        echo "$title | $data" > output.txt              
     done <data.txt" 3<title.txt"

edited Oct 07 '13 at 08:14

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answered Oct 07 '13 at 07:57

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joining text file with cat and bash

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