Using more than one redirection lead to undefined behavior.
Perhaps this is just an aside, but wouldn't redirecting from a named pipe work? That is, if in $(< file1)file1 would be a named pipe being filled by cat file1 file2 ... ?
And second, wouldn't $(< $(cat file1 file2) ) also work? Right now i am travelling with this damn work-laptop and have no U*X-system at hand, so i can only speculate instead of trying....
Can you use cat to send the first 25 lines of a file to the printer? I'm thinking I can pipe it with '|' but I'm not school to check printer output.
With the 'nl' used, all lines are numbered on the print out, but how does one number only the blank lines?
Thanks:) (1 Reply)
Hi,
I wnat to read a fiel line by line and store each line in a variabel, so I made a for loop:
for i in `cat file` ; do
#do sth.
done;
The problem is, that in the file, there are lines with only asterisks like this... (3 Replies)
Not sure how to do this exactly.. just want to take the first 100 lines of a file and cat it out into a second file. I know I can do a more on a file and > it into a different file, but how can I make it so only the first 100 lines get moved over? (1 Reply)
I want to cat a file with only show the line contain '/bin/bash' but don't show the line contain 'load' (don't show if the line contain 'load' and '/bin/bash' together), how to type in the command? thk a lot! (2 Replies)
I am looking for a command to take files with a specific date and cat them all into big file. I know I can use commands to list all of the files from a certain date. But I want to do that and take those files and make on large files containing all of them.
Any help would be great. This is being... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have two files
one.txt
laptop
boy
apple
two.txt
unix
linux
OS
openS
I want to split one.txt into one line each and concatenate it with the two.txt
output files
onea.txt
laptop (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have stumbled upon very unique issue. In my script I am doing cat file and then greping and cutting so as to assign the value to variable. My file is,
<mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh>
DB_USER=test_oper
hostname=xxx
FTP_USER=test1_operate
MAIL_LIST=xxx@yyy.com... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm on a remote computer by SSH. How can I get the output of "cat file" into a file on the local computer?
I cannot use scp, because it's blocked.
something like:
ssh root@remote_maschine "cat /file" > /locale_machine/file
:rolleyes: (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: borsti007
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
merge
merge(1)merge(1)NAME
merge - three-way file merge
SYNOPSIS
merge [-Llabel1 [-Llabel3]] [-p] [-q] file1 file2 file3
DESCRIPTION
merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. The result goes to standard output if -p is present, into file1
otherwise. merge is useful for combining separate changes to an original. Suppose file2 is the original, and both file1 and file3 are
modifications of file2. Then merge combines both changes.
An overlap occurs if both file1 and file3 have changes in a common segment of lines. On a few older hosts where diff3 does not support the
-E option, merge does not detect overlaps, and merely supplies the changed lines from file3. On most hosts, if overlaps occur, merge out-
puts a message (unless the -q option is given), and includes both alternatives in the result. The alternatives are delimited as follows:
<<<<<<< file1 lines in file1 ======= lines in file3 >>>>>>> file3
If there are overlaps, the user should edit the result and delete one of the alternatives. If the -L label1 and -L label3 options are
given, the labels are output in place of the names file1 and file3 in overlap reports.
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no overlaps, 1 for some overlaps, 2 for trouble.
IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy.
Revision Number: 1.1.6.2; Release Date: 1993/10/07.
Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Paul Eggert.
SEE ALSO diff3(1), diff(1), rcsmerge(1), co(1)merge(1)