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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Assistance with combining, sorting and saving multi files into one new file Post 302491832 by jaacmmason on Friday 28th of January 2011 12:07:41 PM
Old 01-28-2011
The fields in the Log files are all delimited by tabs. I have a total of 14 Log files in this folder. I need to combine them into one large file first. That file will have to be sorted and saved.

I thought if I could do a Cat command in Unix and then a Sort command in Unix this would solve the issue. I can find MANY examples of both commands, but when I try to replicate the examples, my ONE file is NOT being created/updated/saved ever.

I would think the Cat command would be set up similar to (logically) Cat.exe all files with the extension of .log (*.log) into ('|' or '>') one large text file (file.txt). Is there a problem with combining files of one extension into one file with a different extension?

Then of course logically I would think I could then use sort to sort the now populated large file (.txt file) in reverse order based on the 3rd field in this large file.

Finally I want to save this file, then move it to another location so it can be utilized in the future for aduits.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

gnomevfs-cat

gnomevfs-cat(1)                                                    User Commands                                                   gnomevfs-cat(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-cat URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI             Specifies the file location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server

       example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com

       Example 2: Cat a Local File

       example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat   Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWgnome-vfs                |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10                                                          6 Sep 2004                                                     gnomevfs-cat(1)
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