Instead what I taught is adding a single line to 20GB data is much faster.
Files do not work that way, you can't insert in the middle. That's why we have text editors to do it for us.
If whatever's using this huge file can read from standard input, you can skip editing the file, just add it to the stream -- print it first, then the rest of the file.
Last edited by Corona688; 11-13-2014 at 02:53 PM..
say i have these many file in a directory named exam.
1)/exam/newfolder/link.txt.
2)/exam/newfolder1/
and i create a tar say exam.tar
well the problem is,
when i read the tar file i dont find any metadata about the directories,as you cannot create a tar containig empty directories.
on the... (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a file created in the name sample.txt in UNIX with header and footer. How to insert a required string (for example "FILE1") in the header part after the file has been created. What kind of command can i use to do the same.
Thanks in advance
Hari (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have several txt files i need to enter specific header and footer (both are separate) to all these files how can i do this? plz help..
Regards,
Raghav (4 Replies)
Hi;
I've been searching posts to find a solution to what I'm trying to do, but I've have NOT found anything yet.
I have a file (file1) with 300K columns and 1411 rows, the columns don't have a column no. header (No header at all) and I'm trying to fetch the information from specific columns.... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
In our project we have requirement where in we have to compare header of one file with header in the parameter file.
There are 20 files which we ftp from one site. All this files have different header.
We are comapring this file with our parameter file(which is having the header... (2 Replies)
Friends,
I need help with the following in UNIX.
Merge all csv files in one folder considering only 1 header row and ignoring header of all other files.
FYI - All files are in same format and contains same headers.
Thank you (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a file which contain hundreds of records/lines. I want to insert the below header in the file after every 60 lines.
#Header
FirstName LastName Address
--------- ---------- ---------
Let say I saved the... (6 Replies)
I would like to hear your directions on how to Insert theses tag </TITLE> and <TEXT> at a given position in 1000 of text files.
My Files look like as
samplefile1.txt
<DOC>
<DOCNO>3_September_2012</DOCNO>
<TITLE>
... ... ... .... ... .. .. .. ... .. .. ....
</TITLE>
<TEXT>
.... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to insert header row with a special character delimiter with Unicode u0109 into a file with ‘echo’, header looks like below
echo –e “header1\u0109header\u0109header3\u0109header4”
It just inserting as it is in the quotes but not the special character, Please suggest if am... (2 Replies)
I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty.
I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-read
CAT(1) General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat, read, nobs - catenate files
SYNOPSIS
cat [ file ... ]
read [ -m ] [ -n nline ] [ file ... ]
nobs [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Cat reads each file in sequence and writes it on the standard output. Thus
cat file
prints a file and
cat file1 file2 >file3
concatenates the first two files and places the result on the third.
If no file is given, cat reads from the standard input. Output is buffered in blocks matching the input.
Read copies to standard output exactly one line from the named file, default standard input. It is useful in interactive rc(1) scripts.
The -m flag causes it to continue reading and writing multiple lines until end of file; -n causes it to read no more than nline lines.
Read always executes a single write for each line of input, which can be helpful when preparing input to programs that expect line-at-a-
time data. It never reads any more data from the input than it prints to the output.
Nobs copies the named files to standard output except that it removes all backspace characters and the characters that precede them. It is
useful to use as $PAGER with the Unix version of man(1) when run inside a win (see acme(1)) window.
SOURCE
/src/cmd/cat.c
/src/cmd/read.c
/bin/nobs
SEE ALSO cp(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Read exits with status eof on end of file or, in the -n case, if it doesn't read nlines lines.
BUGS
Beware of and which destroy input files before reading them.
CAT(1)