Re^3: Merging two files by command line

[markkawika]

You did ask for a one-line script to solve it. That's what a one-line script looks like in Perl: obscure and hard to parse.

You'd be much better off doing it with multiple lines:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %stuff;

while (my $line = <>) {
    chomp $line;
    my @word = split(q{ }, $line);
    push (@{$stuff{$word[0]}}, @word[1..$#word]);
}

for my $key (keys %stuff) {
    print "$key @{$stuff{$key}}\n";
}

Example run:

$ cat file1
Adam 1 2 3
Eve  4 5 6
$ cat file2
Adam 4 5 6
Eve 7 8 9
$ ./merge.pl file1 file2
Adam 1 2 3 4 5 6
Eve 4 5 6 7 8 9