plz elaborate meaning of inverted comma in this command
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paste -d ""file1 file2
man paste
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NAME
paste - merge lines of files
DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from
each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
-d, --delimiters=LIST
reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs
how will i combine these 2 files below, with the desired output
specified below:
file1:
one
two
three
four
file2:
red
blue
yellow
green
file3:
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd (3 Replies)
Hi,
is there a way to combine 2 files together, joining line 1 from file A with line 1 from file B, line 2 from A with line 2 from B etc.
File A File B
1 4
2 5
3 6
Combined result =
File C
14
25
36 (2 Replies)
I have two files which contain data from two different transactions in the same format:
<Name> - <Count>
My goal is to end up with data in this format after combining the two:
<Name> - <Count1> - <Count2>
Is this possible to do with awk, or is there something better?
Thanks... (3 Replies)
Could someone help me reduce the number of runs for a shell program I created?
I have two text files below:
$ more list1.txt
01 AAA
02 BBB
03 CCC
04 DDD
$ more list2.txt
01 EEE
02 FFF
03 GGG
I want to combine the lines with the same number to get the below:
01 AAA 01 EEE
02... (4 Replies)
I have two files and I need to combine (not append - but combine a row to a row)
eg:
File1:
apples
grapes
oranges
lemons
File2:
red
green
orange
yellow
After combining, the file should look like: (the second column should start at a specific byte)
apples red
grapes green... (7 Replies)
Hi there,
I have two files. What I want to do is search for the values in second field of file1 in the 6th field of the file2 and of they match to add the fields 1-5 of the file2 at the end of the line of file1 with a comma before.
E.g
File1
FWB,CHUAGT87HUMAS/BUD01,REUAIR08KLM... (3 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have 2 files:
File1
Filename1 xx
Filename1 yy
Filename1 Total
Filename2 xx
Filename2 yy
Filename2 zz
Filename2 Total
Filename3 xx
Filename3 Total
and File2:
Filename1 10296 xxx Date: 09/01/08
Filename2 10296 xxx Date: 09/05/08... (36 Replies)
Hi All,
Request your expertise in tackling one requirement in my project,(i dont have much expertise in Shell Scripting). The requirement is as below,
1) We store the last run date of a process in a file. When the batch run the next time, it should read this file, get the last run date from... (1 Reply)
Hi I have about 108 files (text files) that end with .avg and each one of these files have a distinct name that describes what is in the file. In each file there is a set of 80 values that are tab separated. I want to combine all 108 files into ONE main file.
So each file is named:
1.avg... (5 Replies)
I have two directories, each have 27 files with same name and now I want to combine them one by one into another directory with same names.
I dont know how to use "and" for the "for loop" so it will not go in the circle.
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Discussion started by: A-V
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)