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# 1  
Old 03-24-2015
Use text of one file to save in another
I am trying to use the text of one file as a text file name with and the text of another as the contents of that text file. Is this possible? Thank you Smilie.

Code:
 
For example, in the two files attached, target.txt has: 
1.txt 
2.txt 
and out_parse.txt has:
13	20763642	20763642	C	G
13	20763438	20763438	C	G

What I can not seem to do is use the first line of target.txt as the text file name and combine it with the first line of out_parse.txt and so on for the second.

Desired output:
1.txt
13	20763642	20763642	C	G

2.txt
13	20763438	20763438	C	G


Thank you Smilie.
target.txt (12 Bytes) 
out_parse.txt (50 Bytes) 
# 2  
Old 03-24-2015
Try:
Code:
awk '{close(fname)} (getline fname<f)>0 {print>fname}' f=target.txt out_parse.txt

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# 3  
Old 03-24-2015
Code:
$
$ paste -d: target.txt out_parse.txt | sed -e 's/:/\n/' -e 's/$/\n/'
1.txt
13      20763642        20763642        C       G

2.txt
13      20763438        20763438        C       G
$
$

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# 4  
Old 03-24-2015
Thank you both Smilie.
# 5  
Old 03-25-2015
Note that the results of durden_tyler's solution and mine differ a lot, because of ambiguity in your requirements.

I read it so that the output would produce 2 different files with the file names specified in the target file, each with one line from the out_parse file

durden_tyler's output produces one file with both the input and the file names...

To avoid this kind of confusion, you need to put more effort still in specifying your requirements..


----
Quote:
Originally Posted by durden_tyler
Code:
$
$ paste -d: target.txt out_parse.txt | sed -e 's/:/\n/' -e 's/$/\n/'
[..]

Note: only GNU sed supports \n in the replacement part of the s function.
# 6  
Old 03-25-2015
Thank you for the clarification and I apologize for the ambiguity... I will put for more effort in being more specific. Thank you Smilie.
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