combine files by line

[mkh]

Hello People.

Been away from applescript for to loong

Iv’e got two files that I need to combine into one, but line by line

File1.txt :
some_data_here
some_more_data

File2.txt
data_to_append_to_file1
more_data_for_file1

What I need is a file with this output
some_data_here data_to_append_to_file1
some_more_data more_data_for_file1

How do I do that?

A shell script or python would be fine to…

Hope somebody can do a bit of magic.

Thanks.

[Craig_Williams]

file1 = File.expand_path(“~/desktop/file1.txt”)
file2 = File.expand_path(“~/desktop/file2.txt”)
joined = File.expand_path(“~/desktop/joined.txt”)

file1_contents = IO.read(file1).split(“\n”)
file2_contents = IO.read(file2).split(“\n”)

joined_file_contents = file1_contents.zip(file2_contents).map { |pair| pair.join(" ") + “\n” }

File.open(joined, ‘w’) { |f| f.puts joined_file_contents }

[mkh]

Thanks alot but I’m getting this error

mkh:~ mkh$ /Users/mkh/Desktop/test.py
File “/Users/mkh/Desktop/test.py”, line 10
joined_file_contents = file1_contents.zip(file2_contents).map { |pair| pair.join(" ") + “\n” }
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Craig_Williams]

Sorry, I should have said it was Ruby. Use an “.rb” extension.

[mkh]

He, thats okay… Got it working, thanks again…