When I use the paste command in the terminal window it works fine, but when i try to use it in a bash script file i get errors. I'm not sure how to use the paste command in a bash script file.
I wonder if any body can help me with a command i am struggling with. I have a file with around 400 lines in, in a program i have it pulls out each line at a time so that data from the line can be cross referenced with another file. If it finds a match it pulls out a ocde from the second file, this... (5 Replies)
I'm attempting to create a Perl script that will:
Take the contents of the usernames.tmp file
(usernames.tmp is created from an awk one-liner ran against /etc/passwd)
Take one line at a time and pass it to the su command as a users name.
This should go on until there is no more name to... (10 Replies)
Problem with Paste command :)
Hi All,
i need small suggestion in my below script...
i have output in .txt format like below
file1.txt
01111111
02222222
03333333
file2.txt
230125
000012
000002
now i want to merge both the file in xls or csv formate
now i am using the below... (2 Replies)
Hi Unix gurus
I have a file containing 2 coloumns. I would like to do a script which reads the lines and executes a command like this:
command <field1> parameters <field2> some more parameters
Please let me know how you would do this without AWK, SED or any other mini language (for special... (5 Replies)
I have a file which contains 3 fields separated by tabs example
andrew kid baker
I need to swap kid and baker using cut and paste commands how is this to be done?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello. I've made a simple script which asks the user to input a hash and then runs a command that replaces the variable $hash with what the user inserted. The ting is that when the programm asks for input I can't paste anything there..! any clues?? :wall: (8 Replies)
Hi,
I want to use paste command in a loop that does it every 6 files. My sample files are like the ones below.
20010101.txt 20010106.txt 20010111.txt
20010116.txt 20010121.txt 20010126.txt
20010131.txt 20010205.txt 20010210.txt
20010215.txt 20010220.txt 20010225.txt
20010302.txt... (4 Replies)
there are lot of files where in mostly all the file contains 2columnsAl,1
Ail,13
Al,3
Al,1
Al,3
Al,2
Al,3
Al,1
Al,1
Al,1
My requirement is i wanted only the second column of every file as a column ony in the base file... I used paste command... but it is not helping as I'm using while... (7 Replies)
Hai ,
When i use paste command in command prompt its giving expected output but not in the script. Below is the example.
$cat file
1
2
3
$cat file1
4
5
6
$paste -d ':' file file1
1:4
2:5
3:6
but when i used the same command in script its giving the output as below :
1
2
3 (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
paste
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 '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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 : -
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.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD