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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Paste second columns from files to its corresponding file Post 302568635 by shoaibjameel123 on Thursday 27th of October 2011 11:08:10 PM
Old 10-28-2011
Paste second columns from files to its corresponding file
Hi All,

I have two sets of files.
One set with extension .txt This set has file names with numbers like these. 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt until extactly 100.txt.

The .txt files look like these:


Code:
0.38701788 93750
0.38622013 94456
0.38350296 94440
0.38282126 94057
0.38282126 94439
0.35847232 166486
0.3557739 167627
0.35375914 156042
0.35018 144546
0.3486718 167493

I have another set of files with extension .dat which also have 1.dat, 2.dat, 3.dat until 100.dat. In this case every 1.txt has 1.dat file and 2.txt has 2.dat file.

The .dat files look like these:

Code:
1
3
4
5
3
2
4
5
6
4

The line number of 1.dat and 1.txt are all same. Same goes for other files too.

What I want is to extract the second column of .txt files and "paste" them in dat files like this, so that my resulting .dat file looks like this.:


Code:
93750	1
94456	3
94440	4
94057	5
94439	3
166486	2
167627	4
156042	5
144546	6
167493	4

I have to do this for all 100 files. This means second column of 1.txt is pasted with 1.dat, second column of 2.txt is pasted in 2.dat and so on until 100.

I can paste the entire .txt file using my code, but unable to do it for the second column only. I am using Linux.

Code:
for num in `seq 1 100`; do
 paste $num.txt $num.dat >$num.comb
done

 

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dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

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