in reply to Merging two files by command line

TMTOWTDI, sometimes not even involving perl . . . 

$ for i in file[12] ; { print $i ; cat $i }
file1
Adam    1 2 3
Eve     4 5 6
file2
Adam    4 5 6
Eve     7 8 9

$ join -1 1 -2 1 file1 file2
Adam 1 2 3 4 5 6
Eve 4 5 6 7 8 9

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The cake is a lie.
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Re^2: Merging two files by command line
by markkawika (Monk) on Aug 20, 2009 at 18:29 UTC
    He did say he wanted to do it on Windows, so a response that invokes the Unix command "join" isn't particularly helpful for him.
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      ORLY?

      The cake is a lie.
      The cake is a lie.
      The cake is a lie.

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