Hmmm - repeating your unmodified problem description again doesn't really help, esp. when the error seems to have been tracked down by Scrutinizer - the (first?) file doesn't have the necessary line terminator on the last line. You'll have to repair that, esp. as his proposal doesn't work on your system. What would be the result of
I have three files, basically:
file 1 - one line header
file 2 - big data (approx 80GB)
file 3 - a one line trailer
the existing process cats these together i.e cat file 1 file 2 file 3
however... I was thinking, surely it could be more efficient to insert the header (file 1) on the... (2 Replies)
Hi guz I want to merge multiple rows into a multiple columns based on the first column.
The file has symbol //
I want to break the symbool // and I nedd exactlynew column at that point
the output will be like this
please guyz help in this isssue!!!!!
merging rows into columns ... (4 Replies)
Hi all - I have a file like below:
A: A1,A2,A3,A4
B: 1,2,3,4
C: z,y,x,w
....
This format repeats
The output should come in a single line merging the first line field with the other two rows:
A1_1 A1_z A2_2 A2_y A3_3 A3_x A4_4 A4_w
Could anyone help with some directions
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have tab limited file 1
and tab limited file 2
The output should contain common first column vales and corresponding 2nd column values; AND also unique first column value with corresponding 2nd column value of the file that contains it and 0 for the second file.
the output should... (10 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to merge multiple columns (from one file) into a single column in an output file.
The file I have looks somewhat like this:
@HWI-ST212 1:N:0 AGTCCTACCGGGAGT + @@@DDDDDHHHHHII
@HWI-ST212 1:N:0 CGTTTAAAAATTTCT + @;@B;DDDDH?:F;F... (4 Replies)
Hi all, I've searched the web for a long time trying to figure out how to merge columns from multiple files.
I know paste will append columns like so:
paste file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 ...
But this becomes inconvenient when you want to append a large number of files into a single file.
... (2 Replies)
Hello, I have two files that have this format:
file 1
86.82 0.00 86.82 43.61
86.84 0.00 86.84 43.61
86.86 0.00 86.86 43.61
86.88 0.00 86.88 43.61
file 2
86.82 0.22
86.84 0.22
86.86 0.22
86.88 0.22
I would like to merge these two files such that the final file looks like... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with 16 columns and out of these 16 columns 14 are key columns, 15 th is order column and 16th column is having information. I need to concate the 16th column based on value of 1-14th column as key in order of 15th column. Here are the example file
Input File (multiple... (3 Replies)
Hello and Good day
I have a lot of files with same number of rows and columns.$2 and $3 are the same in all files .
I need to merge $2,$3,$6 from first file and $6 from another files.
File1:
$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6... (8 Replies)
Join and merge multiple files with duplicate key and fill void columns
Hi guys,
I have many files that I want to merge:
file1.csv:
1|abc
1|def
2|ghi
2|jkl
3|mno
3|pqr
file2.csv: (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: yjacknewton
5 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OSX
cat
CAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat -- concatenate and print files
SYNOPSIS
cat [-benstuv] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command-line order. If
file is a single dash ('-') or absent, cat reads from the standard input. If file is a UNIX domain socket, cat connects to it and then reads
it until EOF. This complements the UNIX domain binding capability available in inetd(8).
The options are as follows:
-b Number the non-blank output lines, starting at 1.
-e Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display a dollar sign ('$') 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.
BSD March 21, 2004 BSD