Hi,
I have a pointer file ptr.txt.
There may be any number of files mentioned in the ptr.txt file
eg: cat ptr.txt
/home/abc.txt
/home/pqr.txt
/home/xyz.txt
I have to read this pointer file and merge the files given in the pointer file
so that final file say... (1 Reply)
Hi, guys. I have one question:
I have two files: passwd and shadow (the number of records in these files are not equal)the contents of them are below:
passwd:
**************
ftp:x:24:24:
sshd:x:71:65:
uucp:x:10:14:
brownj:x:5005:1000:
sherrys: x :5006:1000:
...
*************
... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have a question that I cannot solve.
if I have a file like this (lets say "x-values.dat"):
x1
x2
x3
another file like this (lets say "y-values.dat"):
y1
y2
y3
y4
and another file like this (lets say "p-values.dat"):
p1
p2
p3
...
p12
How can I get this output?
x1 y1 p1
x1 y2... (16 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a question which might be easy to answer but I don't how to do it.
The thing is I need to make a program in C which creates a file with all the content from the files in \etc.
I'm not new to C language but to UNIX.
I've read somewhere I need to use functions like f_read... (2 Replies)
Dear programmers,
I have a question about conditionally merging multiple files and having their file names in the first column.
Input files:
file.1.extension file.2.extension file.3.extension file.4.extension ... file.1000.extension
where each file looks like this (with multiple lines):... (5 Replies)
Hi, I need help with merging two files. My requirement is as below:
File 1:
MachineA
MachineB
File 2:
Process1
Process2
Desired File:
MachineA Process1
MachineB Process2
If file 2 contains only one entry Process1, then second line in the desired output should be:
MachineA Process1... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
i have a requirement as below.
There are two files.
In 1st file a.txt i have four lines as below
Ramesh
Suresh
Pradeep
Franklin
In 2nd file b.txt i have 5 lines as below
Francis
Elizabeth
David
John
Ravi
The output file suppose c.txt should contain 1st line of... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to merge all the text files into one file using below snippet
cat /home/Temp/Test/Log/*.txt >> all.txt
But it seems it is not working.
I have multiple files like Output_ServerName1.txt, Output_ServreName2.txt
I want to merge each file into one single file and... (6 Replies)
Hello
Below is my requirement
I have 3 files A1.txt , A2.txt and A3.txt . A2 is dynamically generating file
I want the merge of A1,A2 and A3 in A2.txt
Could you please help? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pratik4891
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
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