Paste multiple files, but only the sorted head -50
Hello,
I want to merge multiple files (under hundreds folders) side by side. File name are the same but folder are different.
like
Normally it can be done as
but my challenge is I want to only merge the first 50 lines of each file as
to create intermediate files, then merge the intermediate files to have the result. I'd like to combine looping thru the folders with paste such as:
Of course this did not work. My question is how to pipe the multiple "head | sort" with paste to have single line command.
Thanks a lot!
Hi all,
please give me the commands using which i can compare 2 sorted files and get the difference in third file, indiating where the difference is from either file1 or file2.
as:
File1 (Original file)
GARRY
JOHN
JULIE
SAM
---------------
File2
DEV
GARRY
JOHN
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