09-12-2008
Sorry I am not sure of fully understanding what you are trying to achieve. Is is about concatenating the 6 files in one? can you not use cat file1 >> OutputFile and then cat file2 >> OutputFile and so on?
As per the common key, you mean there is a field content that is shared by all the files? Can you provide a shorter example (just 2 or 3 files) with some contents and the expected output file? Like:
File1
xxxxxxxxxx
File2
xxxxxxxxxx
Output File
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you want to extract the first field from your files using awk then you can do
cat theFile | awk -F, '{print $1}'
but I am not sure if that's what you are looking for.
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SYNOPSIS
cat [-benstuv] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
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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
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-n Number the output lines, starting at 1.
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-u Disable output buffering.
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EXIT STATUS
The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
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cat file1
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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
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HISTORY
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BUGS
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