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Re: Side-by-Side

From Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo>
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: Side-by-Side
Date 2025-10-25 00:26 +0000
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:19:59 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 
> Since you're obviously using a Unix shell you might be interested in
> 
> $ paste a.txt b.txt
> 
> as a simpler (though non-awk) solution.

Exactly right Janis =) Really just an exercise for me in wondering:

'How does paste do that any how?'

Now I know. I do wish Windows had a better *native* toolkit for
these sorts of things. The real issue I have is a lack of printf
from the command line in Windows. Awk (paste too) makes these sorts
jobs trivial...

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Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-24 14:28 +0000
  Re: Side-by-Side Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-24 17:19 +0200
    Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-25 00:26 +0000
      Re: Side-by-Side Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-25 03:03 +0200
        Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-26 07:56 +0000
      Re: Side-by-Side mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-25 17:25 +0000
        Re: Side-by-Side Michael Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-26 07:50 +0000

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