What operating system are you using?
How many lines are you concatenating?
After concatenating those lines, how long is your single output line supposed to be?
How have you determined that the concatenation is not working?
What output do you get if you run the commands:
P.S. If you are trying this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
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Hi,
I need to develop a script to join multiple three lines in a log file into one line for processing with awk and grep. I looked at tr with no success. The first line contains the date time information. The second line contains the error line. The third line is a blank line.
Thanks,
Mike (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I've got a log file which has entries that look like this:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/08/04 07:57:57
AMQ9002: Channel program started.
EXPLANATION:
Channel program 'INSCCPQ1.HSMTSPQ1' started.
ACTION:
None. ... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have two text files, that need their data joining/concatenation. 'Paste' works for this.
But have an issue when there is mismatch in number of rows in each file.
E.g.
(main file) File1 - has 20 rows
File2 - has 30 rows.
Command 'paste file1 file2 > file3' joins all lines.
I want the... (4 Replies)
I’m writing a bash shell script and I want to join lines together where two variables on each line are the same ie.
12345variablestuff43212morevariablestuff
12345variablestuff43212morevariablestuff
34657variablestuff78945morevariablestuff
34657variablestuff78945morevariablestuff... (12 Replies)
here is the part of the code
var1="replicate-ignore-db"
var2="replicate-same-server-id"
var3="skip-slave-start"
var4="report-host"
var5="master-host"
var6="master-user"
var7="master-password"
var8="master-port"
#code below deleted paramters as above if exists in my.cnf
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I'm looking for a way to join lines in a file; e.,g consider the following
R|This is line 1
R|This is
line 2
R|This is line 3
R|This is line 4
R|This is
line 5
what i want to end up with is
R|This is line 1
R|This is line 2
R|This is line 3
R|This is line 4
R|This is line 5
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Hi,
I have the following reports that get generated every 1 hour and this is my requirement:
1. 5 reports get generated every hour with the names "Report.Dddmmyy.Thhmiss.CTLR"
"Report.Dddmmyy.Thhmiss.ACCD"
"Report.Dddmmyy.Thhmiss.BCCD"
"Report.Dddmmyy.Thhmiss.CCCD"... (1 Reply)
Since my last threads were closed on account of spamming, keeping just this one opened!
Hi,
I have the following reports that get generated every 1 hour and this is my requirement:
1. 5 reports get generated every hour with the names
"Report.Dddmmyy.Thhmiss.CTLR"... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jesshelle David
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
longline
readfile(1F) FMLI Commands readfile(1F)NAME
readfile, longline - reads file, gets longest line
SYNOPSIS
readfile filename
longline [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The readfile function reads filename and copies it to stdout. No translation of NEWLINE is done. It keeps track of the longest line it
reads and if there is a subsequent call to longline, the length of that line, including the NEWLINE character, is returned.
The longline function returns the length, including the NEWLINE character, of the longest line in filename. If filename is not specified,
it uses the file named in the last call to readfile.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Typical use of readfile and longline
Here is a typical use of readfile and longline in a text frame definition file:
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text="`readfile myfile`"
columns=`longline`
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cat(1), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
If filename does not exist, readfile will return FALSE (that is, the expression will have an error return).
longline returns 0 if a readfile has not previously been issued.
NOTES
More than one descriptor can call readfile in the same frame definition file. In text frames, if one of those calls is made from the text
descriptor, then a subsequent use of longline will always get the longest line of the file read by the readfile associated with the text
descriptor, even if it was not the most recent use of readfile.
SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 readfile(1F)