script to combine colums from multiple files

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Neil Watson wrote:

> How would I go about cutting selected columns from multiple files and
> combining them into single file?  I so used to processing files line by
> line that this problem escapes me.

$ cat file1
1 4
2 5
3 6
$ cat file2
qw:er
ty:ui
as:df
$ paste -d, <(cut -d ' ' -f2 file1) <(cut -d: -f1 file2)
4,qw
5,ty
6,as

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