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@Whitehot, hmm. I have no idea about the subject matter your post hinted at, but I took your phrasing to mean you wanted every A paired against every B (so total n*m pairs), while one might also want first with first, second with second etc (total min(n,m) pairs) is. Anyway, edited to add the other one too.

ilkkachu
– ilkkachu

2025-02-24 21:22:14 +00:00
Commented Feb 24 at 21:22
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In my post I intended to pair every A with every B (like parallel, which I intended to use in the script until I realised I could batch A files together with the tool I am using), which is why I explicitly mentioned the pairs a2.txt b1.txt and a1.txt b2.txt. So you were safe in your assumption :)

Whitehot
– Whitehot

2025-02-25 10:11:02 +00:00
Commented Feb 25 at 10:11

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