SED again...

jithinravi · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2007

hi could u tell me how to use sed for the following issue:

i have 2 files A and B . A has say 100lines:
line1
line2
line3
.
.
.
line100

i want to read data from file A and save it in file B as :
line1, line2, line3, ... line99, line100

that is in a single line.
What is the best way to do this...i thought of using the sed command
sed -i '1,$s/$/" parameter "/' fileB

but cudnt get how to read the text from fileA and pass it as a paramete to the Sed command?

Shell_Life · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2007

Jithinravi,
Sorry, my mistake, it is "paste" with the "s":

Code:

paste -s - < fileA > fileB

jithinravi · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2007

nope sorry!! it says pate command not found.

ghostdog74 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-14-2007

Code:

tr '\n' ',' < file

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-15-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by jithinravi

hi could u tell me how to use sed for the following issue:

i have 2 files A and B . A has say 100lines:
line1
line2
line3
.
.
.
line100

i want to read data from file A and save it in file B as :
line1, line2, line3, ... line99, line100

that is in a single line.
What is the best way to do this...i thought of using the sed command
sed -i '1,$s/$/" parameter "/' fileB

but cudnt get how to read the text from fileA and pass it as a paramete to the Sed command?

Code:

sed -n -e :a -e 'N;s/\n/, /;$p;b a' fileA > fileB

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