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Hi there:

        I have two data files which have more than a few columns of numbers.
I want to pick certain column from each file and merge them together into a
third file.  How to do this?  Too bad awk only takes one input file

Regards

|> Hi there:
|>
|>   I have two data files which have more than a few columns of numbers.
|> I want to pick certain column from each file and merge them together into a
|> third file.  How to do this?  Too bad awk only takes one input file
|>
See the man page for paste.

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