The cat command that doesn't work for you is a UNIX command that would work just fine if you were executing it directly with a non-interactive shell script on any UNIX or Linux system. So, what you have told us is incorrect. We can give you an awk script that will do what cat does; we can give you a sed script that will do what cat does; we can give you a shell script that will do what cat does. But if cat doesn't work, we have absolutely no reason to think that an awk, ed, ex, more, less, sed, or shell script is going to work either.
If what you said about being able to execute the command:
and it works fine except that it doesn't process the 2nd file operand is true, put in a dummy 2nd file operand and try again:
or:
hi,
I want to append to two files into a third file without new line
like this:
file 1:
I am learning the unix
file 2:
Unix is very intersting
When I am trying cat file1 file2 >> file3
I am getting:
I am learning the unix
Unix is very interesting
But I want that to be in... (3 Replies)
I have a string that I need to append to 3 files.
Say,
$ echo "Hello"
I want to append this “Hello” to three files, file1, file2 and file3.The files are all in different directories and the file names have no common pattern.Can I do it in one line? If yes, how? :confused: (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a some files that look like this:
0 3
1 5
2 8
3 7
I want to reverse and append the data so it looks like this:
3 7
2 8
1 5
0 3
0 3
1 5
2 8
3 7
I first thought about using cat and tac cleverly with some redirection and pipe in a one-liner but I couldn't get it to... (1 Reply)
Hello,
There is a log file A.log where new lines are getting added every minute.
When ever any new lines are getting added in to A , the same lines needs to be appended to B.log
I need to append these newly added lines to end of another file B through a shell script. I tried CAT but its... (2 Replies)
Hello,
For the input file, I am trying to split those records which have multiple values seperated by '|' in the last input field, into multiple records and each record corresponds to the common input fields + one of the value from the last field.
I was trying with an example on this forum... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have an ssh 'for' loop script to login and put a key on multiple servers. I need to append a file on each server but the command which works ok from the prompt does not work via the script. I have
cat filename | ssh user@servername "cat >>append.file.name"
I have tried to 'spawn' this in... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple files that read:
Asa.txt
Bad.txt
Gnu.txt
And I want to rename them using awk to
Asa_ddmmyytt.txt and so on
...
If there is a single command or more efficient executable please share!
Thanks! (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to append time stamp to all file with wild character.
If you look above I want take all file with wild card *001* and append current time stamp to it.
I did below code. But not sure if there is any easy way that can be done in a single step
a=date +%s
for... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have requirement where multiple csv files are present in a directory and each file contains a header.I need to append the contents of all the files into one file by removing header.
Once the data is merged in one file ,I need to remove duplicates on nth column to find out distinct... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have three input files
cat file1
col1|col2|col3
a|1|A
b|2|B
cat file2
col1|col2|col3
c|3|C
cat file3
col1|col2|col3
d|4|D
e|5|E
i want below output
file4 col1|col2
a|1 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: looney
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cat
CAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat -- concatenate and print files
SYNOPSIS
cat [-benstuv] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command-line order. If
file is a single dash ('-') or absent, cat reads from the standard input. If file is a UNIX domain socket, cat connects to it and then reads
it until EOF. This complements the UNIX domain binding capability available in inetd(8).
The options are as follows:
-b Number the non-blank output lines, starting at 1.
-e Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display a dollar sign ('$') at the end of each line.
-n Number the output lines, starting at 1.
-s Squeeze multiple adjacent empty lines, causing the output to be single spaced.
-t Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display tab characters as '^I'.
-u Disable output buffering.
-v Display non-printing characters so they are visible. Control characters print as '^X' for control-X; the delete character (octal
0177) prints as '^?'. Non-ASCII characters (with the high bit set) are printed as 'M-' (for meta) followed by the character for the
low 7 bits.
EXIT STATUS
The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The command:
cat file1
will print the contents of file1 to the standard output.
The command:
cat file1 file2 > file3
will sequentially print the contents of file1 and file2 to the file file3, truncating file3 if it already exists. See the manual page for
your shell (i.e., sh(1)) for more information on redirection.
The command:
cat file1 - file2 - file3
will print the contents of file1, print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an EOF ('^D') character, print the con-
tents of file2, read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output the contents of file3. Note that if the standard
input referred to a file, the second dash on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file would have already
been read and printed by cat when it encountered the first '-' operand.
SEE ALSO head(1), more(1), pr(1), sh(1), tail(1), vis(1), zcat(1), setbuf(3)
Rob Pike, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, 1983.
STANDARDS
The cat utility is compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') specification.
The flags [-benstv] are extensions to the specification.
HISTORY
A cat utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. Dennis Ritchie designed and wrote the first man page. It appears to have been cat(1).
BUGS
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output redirection, the command ``cat file1 file2 > file1'' will cause the original
data in file1 to be destroyed!
The cat utility does not recognize multibyte characters when the -t or -v option is in effect.
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