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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Paste command formatting Post 302748517 by abhi1988sri on Wednesday 26th of December 2012 05:15:12 AM
Old 12-26-2012
Paste command formatting

Hi,

I was trying to concatenate some files using paste command along with some formatting but getting stuck.

The problem is:

Code:
cat 1.txt
A

Code:
cat 2.txt
B
C

Code:
cat3.txt
D
E

Code:
cat 4.txt
G
H
I

Code:
paste -d "%" 2.txt 3.txt > 5.txt
B%D
C%E

Code:
paste -d "%" 1.txt 5.txt 4.txt
A%B%D%G
%C%E%H
%%I

but

Expected Output
Code:
A%B%D%G
%C%E%H
%%%I

problem is the number of lines present in the file. with absence of number of fields, the percentage sign during concatenation should vary accordingly. This is just a scenario.

Please help.

Regards

Abhinav

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-26-2012 at 06:21 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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