i need to combine two file. These two files have the same line number, and i need to combine each corresponding line. I tried the paste, but i need coma as the delimeter. are there anyway to do it? thanks. (4 Replies)
hi all
i have 2 files f1 and f2
i have to combine these 2 files and make a new file f3
when i use paste f1 f2 >f3 its pasting vertically
but i want to paste horizontally
How to do ..
pls let me know (2 Replies)
I need a script that combines files with the same name. These files are on a windows directory but the PC has Cygwin so i have a limited unix command set.
What I've got;
WebData_9_2007-09-20.txt
WebData_9_2007-09-20.txt
WebData_9_2007-09-21.txt
WebData_9_2007-09-20.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to read 2 files and writing to the 3rd file if I find the same elements in 2 files. my first file is
1 0 kb12124819 766409 1.586e-01
1 0 kb17160939 773886 8.674e-01
1 0 kb4475691 836671 8.142e-01
1 0 ... (2 Replies)
I have multiple files; each file contains a certain data in a column view
simply i want to combine all those files into one file in columns
example
file1:
a
b
c
d
file 2:
1
2
3
4
file 3:
G (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm very, very new to scripting (let alone SHELL) and was wondering if anyone could help me out as I seem to be in a spot of bother.
I collect data (.dat files) which are automatically seperated into several sub directories, so the file paths I'm reading in at the moment would be... (11 Replies)
Hi,
i have two files. i want to combine records from these two files in below manner :-
first line from first file(1st line)
2nd line from 2nd file(1st line)
3rd line from 1st file(2nd line)
4th line from 2nd file(2nd line)
so on.... (1 Reply)
hi all!
i'm an awk newbie and have been trying in vain to merge N files together.
ie.
file1.txt:
a b c
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4
file2.txt:
a b c
5 5 5
6 6 6
7 7 7
8 8 8 (13 Replies)
i use the split command to split a one terabyte backup file into 10 chunks of 100 GB each. The files are split one after the other. While the files is being split, I will like to scp the files one after the other as soon as the previous one completes, from server A to Server B. Then on server B ,... (2 Replies)
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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