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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting merging two .txt files by alternating x lines from file 1 and y lines from file2 Post 302525224 by ink_LE on Thursday 26th of May 2011 05:24:53 AM
Old 05-26-2011
Lightbulb merging two .txt files by alternating x lines from file 1 and y lines from file2
Hi everyone,

I have two files (A and B) and want to combine them to one by always taking 10 rows from file A and subsequently 6 lines from file B. This process shall be repeated 40 times (file A = 400 lines; file B = 240 lines).

Does anybody have an idea how to do that using perl, awk or sed?

Thank you so much in advance!
Iris

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File A
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Code:
0000 0    BIROB    18    brb    PSI    2    99
0001 17    ROBER    9    rbr    PSI    2    99
0002 5   TASOT    16    tst    PSI    2    99
0003 78    KASEK    6    ksk    PSI    2    99
...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File B
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Code:
0000 N    NNNNN    N    N    CCCCC    NNN    2
0001 P    PPPPP    P    P    CCCCC    PPP    1
0002 P    PPPPP    P    P    CCCCC    PPP    1
0003 P    PPPPP    P    P    CCCCC    PPP    1
0004 N    NNNNN    N    N    CCCCC    NNN    2

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-26-2011 at 12:47 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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PSI(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            PSI(1)

NAME

       Psi - jabber client

SYNOPSIS

       psi [--profile=PROFILE] [--remote|--choose-profile]

DESCRIPTION

              [--status=STATUS [--status-message=MSG]] [--uri=URI]

       Psi - The Cross-Platform Jabber/XMPP Client For Power Users

OPTIONS

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              Activate  program  instance  running  specified  profile. Otherwise, open new instance using this profile (unless used together with
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              Force remote-control mode. If there is no running instance, or --profile was specified but there is no instance using it, exit with-
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       --status=STATUS
              Set status. STATUS must be one of `online', `chat', `away', `xa', `dnd', `offline'.

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