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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How do I custom sort the files in a directory using the filenames in a text file.? Post 302991719 by RudiC on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 03:48:50 PM
Old 02-15-2017
Why don't you post your for loop and the logics (what do you mean with "merge"?) you want applied to your files so we can decently help you?
If concatenating the files together with cat were the goal, would this come close?
Code:
while read FN; do echo cat "$FN >> resultfile"; done <file1
cat /home/k/abc.txt >> resultfile
cat /home/k/xyz.txt >> resultfile
cat /home/k/pqr.txt >> resultfile

Remove the echo and requote if happy with the result.
Last edited by RudiC; 02-15-2017 at 04:54 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnomevfs-cat

gnomevfs-cat(1) 						   User Commands						   gnomevfs-cat(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-cat URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI	       Specifies the file location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server

       example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com

       Example 2: Cat a Local File

       example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat   Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004							   gnomevfs-cat(1)
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