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Hi Friends,
Please help.
I have 2 pipe delimited files; each one has different number of rows in it. I want to use "paste" to concatenate these files.
However, while doing it, due to difference in number of rows in each files resulting file is in haphazard manner.
E.g.
file 1
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Hi all,
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Preserve byte size of fields while pasting it to other file
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how to do it using unix ?
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I want to set two fields in a text file to be of size 20.
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eg: ABC.txt
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I want Name and City both to be of size 20.
Also If I am pasting it in other file the byte size should be preserved.i.e. If I want to append content of ABC.txt to other... (0 Replies)
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