Combine reports and append a line between each

ldevito1 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006

I am new to Unix and have tried to write a ksh script to do the following without success:

I have several reports in a directory (report1, report2, report3, etc). I would like to combine all of these reports into one file (REPORTS). I would like to append *** End of Report *** to each report so I can easily distinguish between each report in the file.

The output to the REPORTS file should look like:

report1
*** End of Report ***
report2
*** End of Report ***
report3
*** End of Report ***

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006

Pretty simple....

Code:

$ cat > report1
This is report1
^D
$ cat > report2
This is report2
^D
$ cat > report3
This is report3
^D
$ for file in report*; do
>   cat $file >> REPORTS
>   echo "*** End Of Report ***" >> REPORTS
> done
$ cat REPORTS
This is report1
*** End Of Report ***
This is report2
*** End Of Report ***
This is report3
*** End Of Report ***

Cheers
ZB

ldevito1 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-08-2006

Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion ZB and I get the reports and then all of the ***End of Report*** messages at the end of the file:

report1
report2
report3
***End of Report***
***End of Report***
***End of Report***

This is the code that I now have:

#!/bin/sh

myhome=/ebizImpact/ImpactServer-5_4/config/Cluster/DOCfrFTP

# Move the Original .doc Word reports in DOCfrFTP/BAK to a tran file
# Add an End of Report seperator between each report

for FILE in $myhome/BAK/*.doc; do
cat -q $myhome/BAK/$FILE >> $myhome/DOCfrFTP_`date +%Y%m%d`.doc.tran
echo "*** END OF REPORT ***" >> $myhome/DOCfrFTP_`date +%Y%m%d`.doc.tran
done
rm -f $myhome/BAK/*.doc

The code is pretty simple so you would think it would work. Anyway, thanks again in advance for any further suggestions.

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