1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Problem with Paste command :) Hi All, i need small suggestion in my below script... i have output in .txt format like below file1.txt 01111111 02222222 03333333 file2.txt 230125 000012 000002 now i want to merge both the file in xls or csv formate now i am using the below... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I have an interesting problem and i couldn't find out the solution. I have two variables in which there are a lot of lines finished by \n. I would like to concatenate this two variables into one in this format: var1var2 var1var2 . . . I could do this simply by command paste but it works... (32 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

input1 15 150 input2 x 10 100 input3 y 20 200 z 34 44 cmd paste -d "\t" input1 input2 input3 >>output output (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file which contains 3 fields separated by tabs example andrew kid baker I need to swap kid and baker using cut and paste commands how is this to be done? Thanks (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file which contains 3 fields separated by tabs example andrew kid baker I need to swap kid and baker using cut and paste commands how is this to be done? Thanks (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Below file content is output from pasting two files. Now, i want to output another file which just contains the difference on any line For example: JAY,2,,3,5,B+,JAY,2,,3,5,B+ ANN,5,,5,1,C,ANN,5,,5,2,C Line JAY seems to have no difference. However, line ANN has difference in on... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm trying to combine text files without a space. So if i use the paste command paste file1 file2 file3 > file4 the new file created has spacing between the contents of the once individual files. Is there some trick I can do with a delimiter that removes the spaces.. like paste -d'' or... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I was trying to concatenate some files using paste command along with some formatting but getting stuck. The problem is: cat 1.txt A cat 2.txt B C cat3.txt D E cat 4.txt G H (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can I accomplish this? I basically want to merge two variables onto the same line. I can do it with two FILES this way: $ cat /tmp/users_in.list | awk -F "," '{print $2}' | cut -c -1 > first.initial $ awk -F "," '{print $1}' /tmp/users_in.list | awk '{print $1}' > last.name $ paste... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am facing issue with paste command. It is adding spaces or tab in between. I have say 3 files with below data File_1 TH THI THIS I File_2 IS IS S IS RE S File_3 RECORD 1 CORD 2 IS RECORD 3 (3 Replies)