Hi I have used many times the various methods to append two lines together in a file.
This time I want to append the 1st line to the second and repeat for the complete file.... an example
This is the file
owns the big brown dog
joe
owns the small black dog
jim
What I want is
... (7 Replies)
I'll try explain this as best I can. Let me know if it is not clear.
I have large text files that contain data as such:
143593502 09-08-20 09:02:13 xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx 09-08-20 09:02:11 N line 1 test
line 2 test
line 3 test
143593503 09-08-20 09:02:13... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've spent some time researching for this but can't seem to find a solution. I have a file like this
1234|Test|20101111|18:00|19:00There will be multiple lines in the file with the same kind of format. For every line I need to make it this
1234|Test|20101111|18:00|19:00||create... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a group of text files with many lines in each file.
I need to delete all the lines in each and only leave 2 lines in each file. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have 1000 line text file.
I need only the 1st and 8th line from every set of 10 lines, that is,
1,8,11,18,21,21,28,31,38,... lines etc into a text file.
Please let me know how I can achieve the same.
Regards,
Don (2 Replies)
Hi,
My file has the below content
Heading
1
2
3
Heading
4
5
6
I need to remove the other occurrences of first line and display other lines.
The content of first line is not static
My output should be:
Heading
1
2 (8 Replies)
Hi All,
This is very urgent, I've a data file with 1.7 millions rows in the file and the delimiter is cedilla and I need to format the data in such a way that if the NF in the next row is less than 1, it will append that value to previous line.
Any help will be appricated.
Thanks,... (17 Replies)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
DIAGNOSTICS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the -d option.
BSD September 20, 2001 BSD