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Operating Systems AIX merge text files Post 302266861 by Franklin52 on Thursday 11th of December 2008 07:34:05 AM
Old 12-11-2008
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:

Code:
awk -v var=`wc -l < file` 'NR>1 && /HEADER/ || NR<var && /TRAILER/{next}{print}' file > newfile

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.

Regards
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

vpl2mod.1

VPL2MOD.1(1)						      Sword Module Utilities						      VPL2MOD.1(1)

NAME

       vpl2mod - tool to convert verse per line source to SWORD module

SYNOPSIS

       vpl2mod SOURCE PATH [0|1] [0|1]

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to create SWORD module from the verse per line formated source. The resulting module will be saved in the path
       specified.

OPTIONS

       [0|1] [0|1]
	   The first option indicates whether to prepend verse references or not.  The second option is to indicate whether module is NT only or
	   not.

NOTE

       With no verse references source file must contain exactly 31102 lines. This is KJV verse count plus heading for the module, testament, book
       and chapter. An example snippet follows:

	MODULE HEADER
	OLD TESTAMENT HEADER
	GENESIS HEADER
	CHAPTER 1 HEADER
	In the beginning...

       This example implies there must also be a chapter 2 header, Exodus header, New Testament header, etc. If there is no text for the header, a
       black line must, at least, hold place.

       With verse references, source file must simply contain any number of lines, that begin with the verse reference for which it is an entry,
       e.g.:

	gen 1:0 CHPATER 1 HEADER
	get 1:1 In the beginning...

Authors
       This manual page was written by Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com> for Debian project but may be used by others.

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SWORD 1.6.2+dfsg						    2012-02-22							      VPL2MOD.1(1)
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