If you have the 'HEADER' at the first line and 'TRAILER' at the last line in all your files you can delete the those lines after merging the files with:
First we use a variable var wich is the number of the last line (wc -l < file).
Now we print every line except the line with HEADER if it isn't the first line and the line with TRAILER if it isn't the last line.
Situation:
Our system currently executes a job (COBOL Program) that generates an interface file to be sent to one of our vendors. Because this system processes information for over 100,000 employees/retirees (and growing), we'd like to multi-thread the job into processing-groups in order to... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have several files that begin with db. in my directory and I would like to first take it from a specific word starting from $TTL until the end of the contents then do the same all the way down the directory then merge them into one txt file.
Is this possible? I am using cygwin with... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to merge all the text files into one file using below snippet
cat /home/Temp/Test/Log/*.txt >> all.txt
But it seems it is not working.
I have multiple files like Output_ServerName1.txt, Output_ServreName2.txt
I want to merge each file into one single file and... (6 Replies)
Hello expert friends,
I'm writing a script to capture stats using sar and stuck up at report generation.
I have around 10 files in a directory and need to merge them all vertically based on the time value of first column (output file should have only one time value) and insert comma after... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to this forum. I have always made good use of all the wise hints shown here. But this time I'm struggling with an issue that is driving me crazy.
I have two text files, I have to merge them based on the first column, resulting file must contain all record from the first file... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I'm back again looking for your precious help-
This time I need to merge two text files with matching two fields, output only common records with mixed output.
Let's look at the example:
FILE1
56153;AAA0708;3;TEST1TEST1;
89014;BBB0708;3;TEST2TEST2;
89014;BBB0708;4;TEST3TEST3;
... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)