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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using AWK: Extract data from multiple files and output to multiple new files Post 302461686 by Liverpaul09 on Tuesday 12th of October 2010 03:43:43 AM
Old 10-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by calitiggr
I'm still a newbie at this but what about...

(Assuming all your files are in the same directory)

Code:
for oldfile in *;
do;
   egrep 'line2' $oldfile > new-$oldfile;
done;

I'm a newbie aswellSmilie

Thanks for the reply but I actually solved the problem while messing around with itSmilie.

I wrote the following function:
Code:
function save_file()
{
printf ("\n%-35s%-35s%-35s", uwi, curve, FILENAME) > "new" FILENAME;
}

The variables I created are: uwi, curve
FILENAME is an AWK standard variable.

Hope this helps someone out there. If there's a better way to do this, please feel free to post it here, afterall, I'm a beginner. Otherwise, consider this problem solvedSmilie.

Last edited by Liverpaul09; 10-12-2010 at 10:15 AM..
 

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MERGE(1)						      General Commands Manual							  MERGE(1)

NAME
merge - three-way file merge SYNOPSIS
merge [ options ] file1 file2 file3 DESCRIPTION
merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. The result ordinarily goes into file1. merge is useful for com- bining separate changes to an original. Suppose file2 is the original, and both file1 and file3 are modifications of file2. Then merge combines both changes. A conflict occurs if both file1 and file3 have changes in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, merge normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and >>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this: <<<<<<< file A lines in file A ======= lines in file B >>>>>>> file B If there are conflicts, the user should edit the result and delete one of the alternatives. OPTIONS
-A Output conflicts using the -A style of diff3(1), if supported by diff3. This merges all changes leading from file2 to file3 into file1, and generates the most verbose output. -E, -e These options specify conflict styles that generate less information than -A. See diff3(1) for details. The default is -E. With -e, merge does not warn about conflicts. -L label This option may be given up to three times, and specifies labels to be used in place of the corresponding file names in conflict reports. That is, merge -L x -L y -L z a b c generates output that looks like it came from files x, y and z instead of from files a, b and c. -p Send results to standard output instead of overwriting file1. -q Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. -V Print 's version number. DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no conflicts, 1 for some conflicts, 2 for trouble. IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy. Manual Page Revision: 5.7; Release Date: 1995/06/01. Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy. Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert. SEE ALSO
diff3(1), diff(1), rcsmerge(1), co(1). BUGS
It normally does not make sense to merge binary files as if they were text, but merge tries to do it anyway. GNU
1995/06/01 MERGE(1)
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