The join utility

Here students names are matched with their appropriate marks. How ? join utility uses the Sr.No. field to join to files. Notice that Sr.No. is the first field in both sname and smark file.

General Syntax of join utility:
Syntax:
join {file1} {file2}

Use of join utility:
The join utility joins, lines from separate files.

Note that join will only work, if there is common field in both file and if values are identical to each other.