The output will be from the same line number from each file separated with a tab unless you choose some other character. The output can be piped or redirected like other unix commands.
We have to convert a sequential file to a 80 char line sequential file (HP UX platform).The sequential file contains special characters. which after conversion of the file to line sequential are getting coverted into "new line" or "tab" and file is getting distorted. Is there any way to read these... (2 Replies)
To make it clearer:
I have a file, List.txt
List.txt contains: (these are actually splitted files w/c I got from ls command and dump them to the List.txt file)
SAMPLEa
SAMPLEb
SAMPLEc
SAMPLEd
SAMPLEe
SAMPLEf
.
.
.
.
.
And I want to rename these files to have a .dat extension.... (3 Replies)
I am writing a shell script using the korn shell. It seems that I am only
able to use local variables within a while loop that is reading a file.
(I can't access a variable outside a previously used while loop.) It's been
a while since I wrote shell scripts. Here is a sample
cat file.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am building a script to grep for a string in all the files from a folder and display the results.
I am reading the files one by one by placing the names in other file using while loop
my code is as below
while read inp
do
chk=`grep -c "$str" $pth/$inp`
... (2 Replies)
Hi.
I have a process that execute a Microfocus Cobol. This process read a large sequential file and update or insert in a table Oracle.
This process run smoothly in some ocasions but in a file whor have more than 400,000 registers, the cobol program doesn't finish read all the records,... (3 Replies)
Writing a Tool to simulate non-sequential disk I/O (simulate db file sequential read) in C POSIX
I have over the years come across the same issue a couple of times, and it normally is that the read speed on SAN is absolutely atrocious when doing non-sequential I/O to the disks. Problem being of... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am on HP-UX and K shell.
When I am using while/for loop for reading a file. It is working fine but not reading tabs:
Suppose, if the line is: ; ;COMP; ; ; ;
then loop is reading as
; ;COMP; ;... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I need small help on for loop syntax in C shell.
How can we read the values from a file (line by line) through C shell loop.
For Ex:
$Cat file1
data1
data2
data3
data4
$
I have to print those values in a variable and have to perform some steps...
Can anyone help on... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing in a file through cat command. This file will contain the path of file along with filename. e.g. /home/user/folder1/folder2/filename.txt
There might be very large number of this path in same file like say 140
when I try to run while command:
while read -r file
do
//command... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pulkit Lall
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
DIAGNOSTICS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the -d option.
BSD September 20, 2001 BSD