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# 1  
Old 04-23-2010
read from different files
i have the following files with content

file a content;

Code:
1234|wert|

file b content;

Code:
2345|byte|

file c content;
Code:
9999|kilo|

i want to read the contents of three files seperately and for each of them select the first column and output below

Code:
welcome 1234
welcome 2345
welcome 9999

Last edited by vgersh99; 04-23-2010 at 02:07 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 04-23-2010
Code:
$ cat file
1234|wert|
$ cat file | IFS="|" read a b
$ echo "welcome $a"
welcome 1234

# 3  
Old 04-23-2010
how can i use this script to read about 100 or more txt file and output the same message
# 4  
Old 04-23-2010
Code:
cd /dir1/dir2
for i in *
do
  cat $i | IFS="|" read a b 
  echo "welcome $a"
done

# 5  
Old 04-23-2010
Code:
sed 's/\([^|]*\).*/welcome \1/' files

Last edited by alister; 04-23-2010 at 02:15 PM..
# 6  
Old 04-23-2010
AWK version

Code:
awk -F\| 'FNR==1{print "Welcome "$2}' *.txt

# 7  
Old 04-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kcoder24
AWK version

Code:
awk -F\| 'FNR==1{print "Welcome "$2}' *.txt

That should be $1, not $2.

Regards,
Alister
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