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Old 05-18-2010
How to separate a line with or without using newline command?
Hi,
I am using Putty for unix shell scripting. I need some suggestions in splitting the 'output line' into two separate lines. Originally I am getting the input from another text file A. And when looking at the content in the text file A, the lines are separated in the way I want. After that I am passing the contents of the text file A to the text file B. The text file B already has some output data in it. All I want is to merge the text from file A into file B. I succeed in doing so but the contents from file A are now displayed in same line in text file B.

For Example:
In Text file A: / abc not found
/ def not found
/ ghi not found

But when it is copied to text file B, it looks like,

The missing items are:
/ abc not found / def not found / ghi not found

But I want the output file in this format:
The missing items are:
/ abc not found
/ def not found
/ ghi not found

Thanks!!!
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Old 05-18-2010
How did you copy fileA to fileB?

Try this
Code:
cat fileA >> fileB

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Old 05-18-2010
Thanks! Yes, I have used the 'cat' command and it is not working as I expected.

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Do u guys think using an incremental loop is a good idea for this question? That is, in the text file A whenever a '/' occurs then we have to put it in next line. Do you guys know hoe to implement this procsdure? Or is there any better way to split the lines?

I will appreciate your suggestions/help...
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Old 05-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by snr100
I am using Putty for unix shell scripting.
What is your shell? That is no the same thing as PuTTY, the shell runs on the server.
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Old 05-18-2010
It is Ksh...Korn shell scripting
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Old 05-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by snr100
Do u guys think using an incremental loop is a good idea for this question? That is, in the text file A whenever a '/' occurs then we have to put it in next line. Do you guys know hoe to implement this procsdure? Or is there any better way to split the lines?
sed 's#/#/\n#g' < infile > outfile
Last edited by Corona688; 05-18-2010 at 02:40 PM.. Reason: fix typo
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Old 05-18-2010
Hi Corona,
Thanks for your reply. I used your suggestions in my code but it doesn't seem to bring my desired result.

After applying your code the output looked like this,
// abc not found // def not found // ghi not found

But I want output in the following format,
// abc not found
// def not found
// ghi not found

Thanks! Any suggestions!!!!
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