#!/usr/bin/perl -w die "Two args plz (dat/descript/foo.{key,val}), m'kay?\n" if $#ARGV != 1; undef $/; open IN, "<", $ARGV[0] or die "Can't open $ARGV[0]\n"; $_ = ; close IN; my @keys = split /%%%%\n/s; open IN, "<", $ARGV[1] or die "Can't open $ARGV[1]\n"; $_ = ; close IN; my @vals = split /%%%%\n/s; die "$#keys keys but $#vals vals\n" if $#keys != $#vals; open OUT, ">spliced.txt" or die "Can't write to spliced.txt\n"; for (0..$#keys) { print OUT ($vals[$_] ? "$keys[$_]\n$vals[$_]%%%%\n" : "$keys[$_]%%%%\n"); } close OUT; print "Output written as ./spliced.txt, please review it before installing.\n";