How to paste two words in a file without space

Hi Experts:

I need your assistance in using paste to join two words together. Here I have two files:
file1: Word
file2: /strings together

Using paste command in unix:
paste file1 file2 > file3
Output from file3: Word /strings together

Note: There are spaces between Word and /strings

I would like them to be like this
Word/strings together

Any assistance in how to get this to work in unix is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Frywonton

That seems to be how paste works, but you might be able to get it to drop the tab character it uses (by default) as the replacement to file1's newlines by usind -d '' to have the delimiter be 'blank'. I've not tested that so cannot be sure it will work.
Failing that an alternate method could be used - either continue to use paste and use a 'strange' delimiter and then use sed or tr to edit out that character (so choose one you'd never see), or use a different method of concatentation entirely. Most methods would require you to deal with the (potential) newline at the end of file1 at some stage of the process.

This is longer than paste but works in my tests:



(I was too lazy to figure out how many back slashes are needed to stick a \n into the string on the command line. That's why I instead used a separate print"" .)

Thanks Simon and b49P23TIvg for your prompt reply.
Simon, I have been pulling my hair trying to figure out to use the type to joint without sucess. I am a newbie but willing to learn.

Thanks b49P23TIvg! Your gwak scripts works. I will try and implement it to my other program. Greatly appprecaited your alternative solution. Thanks to both of you for your reply.