Hi,
Fairly new to unix scripting, hoping to get some help.
using AIX v5
Basically I have 3 files 1). Header record 2). many detail record 3). Trailer record
My desired result is 1 file which contains Heaeder, Detail, Trailer
Currenty I am using a series of:
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Hi, excuse me for my poor english.
My problem is that:
I have a File
i want to add to each line of that file two strings: one at the beginning of the line, one at the ending.
string1="abcd"
string2="efgh"
i want $string1 content $string2 for each line.
Is that possible? (3 Replies)
Hi Ladies and Gents,
Explanation of my question with an example:
Let's consider the script: backup_every_hour.sh
#!/bin/bash
rsync -auv $dir $backup_dir >> backup_every_hour_script.log
Each time this script is called there will be a new entry at the end of the file... (1 Reply)
Well here goes:
I tried to write a batch file that adds a specific fixed text to each line of an already existing text file.
for the adding text infront of each line I tried this:
for /F "delims=" %%j in (list.txt) do echo.STARTTEXT\%%j >> list.txt
for adding text after each line I... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have serveral directories like this:
(2013) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
or
(1997) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
and have to rename them to something like that:
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (2013)
and
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (1997)
Easy... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a specific requirement to add text at the beginning and end of a plain text file. I tried to use "sed" with '1i' and '$a' flags but these required two separate "sed" commands separated with "|".
I am looking for some command/option to join these two in single command parameter.
... (6 Replies)
My file has the entries like below...
/dev/sds
/dev/sdak
/dev/sdbc
/dev/sdbu
I want to make the file like below
echo 1 > /sys/block/sds/device/rescan
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdak/device/rescan
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbc/device/rescan
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbu/device/rescan (2 Replies)
Hi,
I now that >> will append text to the end of the text that is already inside the file.
How to append the new text infront of the text that is already in the file.
Thanks for any input.
Regards,
Chandu (3 Replies)
Hi all and apologies for the silly question, but I've searched and I can't get this right.
I have a list of email addresses in a file that I need to blacklist (spam). the list is quite long and I would need to script a small routine so that I can get the following for each line in the file:
db... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bm555
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cat
CAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat -- concatenate and print files
SYNOPSIS
cat [-benstuv] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command-line order. If
file is a single dash ('-') or absent, cat reads from the standard input. If file is a UNIX domain socket, cat connects to it and then reads
it until EOF. This complements the UNIX domain binding capability available in inetd(8).
The options are as follows:
-b Number the non-blank output lines, starting at 1.
-e Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display a dollar sign ('$') at the end of each line.
-n Number the output lines, starting at 1.
-s Squeeze multiple adjacent empty lines, causing the output to be single spaced.
-t Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display tab characters as '^I'.
-u Disable output buffering.
-v Display non-printing characters so they are visible. Control characters print as '^X' for control-X; the delete character (octal
0177) prints as '^?'. Non-ASCII characters (with the high bit set) are printed as 'M-' (for meta) followed by the character for the
low 7 bits.
EXIT STATUS
The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The command:
cat file1
will print the contents of file1 to the standard output.
The command:
cat file1 file2 > file3
will sequentially print the contents of file1 and file2 to the file file3, truncating file3 if it already exists. See the manual page for
your shell (i.e., sh(1)) for more information on redirection.
The command:
cat file1 - file2 - file3
will print the contents of file1, print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an EOF ('^D') character, print the con-
tents of file2, read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output the contents of file3. Note that if the standard
input referred to a file, the second dash on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file would have already
been read and printed by cat when it encountered the first '-' operand.
SEE ALSO head(1), more(1), pr(1), sh(1), tail(1), vis(1), zcat(1), setbuf(3)
Rob Pike, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, 1983.
STANDARDS
The cat utility is compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') specification.
The flags [-benstv] are extensions to the specification.
HISTORY
A cat utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. Dennis Ritchie designed and wrote the first man page. It appears to have been cat(1).
BUGS
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output redirection, the command ``cat file1 file2 > file1'' will cause the original
data in file1 to be destroyed!
The cat utility does not recognize multibyte characters when the -t or -v option is in effect.
BSD March 21, 2004 BSD