Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to append the runtimes of the jobs for every run.
I have some 100 jobname and it will be static in output(1st column) . Everyday I need to run my script to find the runtimes for that day and add the entire 100 runtimes to the right of those 100 jobs(2nd column) . Next day to the right of those 100 runtimes(3rd column) and soon.
Is there any way to append like that ?

Thanks
Ajay

How do you get the run-time of the scripts? Do you store it in a variable or..?
And how do you append those 100 run-times to the 2nd or 3rd column..?

Ill get the runtimes from the logs for each run..for eg, for todays run, ill calculate the runtimes of all the jobs and put them in a txt file line by line. I dont know how to append it in 2nd /3rd/... columns of the output file.
I need to paste all these runtimes in the text file to that output file, but that should be appended (columnwise) .

Post few samples of the "run-times" and the output you expect. People here would help you appending.
Or post few line of logs, we could even extract the run-time directly from the log and append.

Hi,
Runtimes are in mins.

Code:

Jobname|Run time(mins)|Run time(mins)
---------------------------------------
xyz       |127               |130
abc       |80                 |81
sdf       |50                 |50
lkj        |140                |140

In the above table, Jobname is static. whenever I run the script that run times(mins) should get appended. I know how to get the runtimes, but donno how to append them.

Thanks
Ajay

that's the expect output, where is your sample data?

This will be my sample data in a txt file.

20110208(mins)
---------------
127
42
45
60
50

For every run a new file will be created like above and it needs to get appended to the output file as shown in my previous post.

Thanks
Ajay