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# 1  
Old 06-17-2010
Question Merging two files with same name
Hello all,

I have limited experience in shell scripting. Here goes my question:

I have two directories that have same number of files with same file names i.e. consider 2 directories A and B. Both directories have files 1.txt, 2.txt......

I need to merge the file 1.txt of A with file 1.txt of B, file 2.txt of A with file 2.txt of B, .....and so on.

Please suggest a UNIX script to do this.

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 06-17-2010
One way, assuming A and B directories are in the current directory, and that A and B contain only files:

Code:
ls A | sed "s|.*|cat A/& >> B/&|" | sh

Code:
$ ls A
1.txt	2.txt	3.txt

$ cat A/1.txt
1

$ ls B
1.txt	2.txt	3.txt

$ cat B/1.txt
a

#... etc...

$ ls A | xargs -I{} cat A/{}
1
2
3

$ ls B | xargs -I{} cat B/{}
a
b
c

$ ls A | sed "s|.*|cat A/& >> B/&|" | sh

$ ls B | xargs -I{} cat B/{}            
a
1
b
2
c
3

Or probably simpler with a loop:
Code:
ls A | while read FILE; do
  cat A/"$FILE" >> B/"$FILE"
done

Last edited by Scott; 06-17-2010 at 04:09 PM..
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# 3  
Old 06-17-2010
Thanks scottn for the prompt reply.
The loop approach looks more elegant to me.
Just a small issue, what if I want the merging not to append to the directory B files, but rather put the results of merging in a separate file with the same file name?
# 4  
Old 06-17-2010
As an example:

Code:
ls A | while read FILE; do
  cat A/"$FILE" B/"$FILE" >> C/"$FILE"
done

to append the A and B files to new files (with the same names) somewhere else.
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jaysean
# 5  
Old 06-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
As an example:

Code:
ls A | while read FILE; do
  cat A/"$FILE" B/"$FILE" >> C/"$FILE"
done

to append the A and B files to new files (with the same names) somewhere else.
It will be better to add one judgment before attach file A to B. But this depends on the request

Code:
if [ -f "B/$FILE" ] ; then
  cat A/"$FILE" B/"$FILE" >> C/"$FILE"
fi

# 6  
Old 06-18-2010
Thanks to both of you.

However, there's one thing to note here, unless the files end in a newline character the append will be at the end of the last line of the file and thus 2 lines will be in the same line
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