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# 1  
Old 09-13-2011
copy content of file to another files from certain position
Hello Guys

I have a directory of xml files (almost 500 ) Now in each xml file 3 new attributes will be added which are in a different single file

Is there any way I can copy the whole content of single file at 6th line of all the files in the directory .

Thanks a lot!!!
# 2  
Old 09-13-2011
Code:
$ cat file
12
34
56
12
34
22
33
44

Output from 6th line:

Code:
$ sed -n '6,$p' file
22
33
44

Guru
# 3  
Old 09-13-2011
Sorry my English is not good. I tried but I can't understand this phrase:
Quote:
Is there any way I can copy the whole content of single file at 6th line of all the files in the directory .
# 4  
Old 09-13-2011
Sorry Yazu,your english is perfect Smilie I didn't clear myself properly

So here is the scenarion

1st file contains

Code:
<FLATFILE CODEPAGE ="MS1252" CONSECDELIMITERSASONE ="NO" DELIMITED ="YES" DELIMITERS ="|" ESCAPE_CHARACTER ="" KEEPESCAPECHAR ="NO" LINESEQUENTIAL ="NO" NULLCHARTYPE ="ASCII" NULL_CHARACTER ="*" PADBYTES ="1" QUOTE_CHARACTER ="NONE" REPEATABLE ="NO" ROWDELIMITER ="0" SKIPROWS ="0" STRIPTRAILINGBLANKS ="NO"/>


Now I have a directory of files

Now what I want to do is that I want to copy the whole content of 1st file in the directory of files starting in 6th position

Say one of the files in directory has content


Code:
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I want the output as like


Code:
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<FLATFILE CODEPAGE ="MS1252" CONSECDELIMITERSASONE ="NO" DELIMITED ="YES" DELIMITERS ="|" ESCAPE_CHARACTER ="" KEEPESCAPECHAR ="NO" LINESEQUENTIAL ="NO" NULLCHARTYPE ="ASCII" NULL_CHARACTER ="*" PADBYTES ="1" QUOTE_CHARACTER ="NONE" REPEATABLE ="NO" ROWDELIMITER ="0" SKIPROWS ="0" STRIPTRAILINGBLANKS ="NO"/>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

---------- Post updated at 01:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:40 AM ----------

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Hi Guru

Thanks for your reply but I want to append the content of a file to another file starting from 6th position...I have posted a scenario above

Please have a look
# 5  
Old 09-13-2011
File1:
Code:
$ cat f
<FLATFILE CODEPAGE ="MS1252" CONSECDELIMITERSASONE ="NO" DELIMITED ="YES" DELIMITERS ="|" ESCAPE_CHARACTER ="" KEEPESCAPECHAR ="NO" LINESEQUENTIAL ="NO" NULLCHARTYPE ="ASCII" NULL_CHARACTER ="*" PADBYTES ="1" QUOTE_CHARACTER ="NONE" REPEATABLE ="NO" ROWDELIMITER ="0" SKIPROWS ="0" STRIPTRAILINGBLANKS ="NO"/>

File2:
Code:
$ cat f1
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Output:
Code:
$  sed  '6r f' f1
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<FLATFILE CODEPAGE ="MS1252" CONSECDELIMITERSASONE ="NO" DELIMITED ="YES" DELIMITERS ="|" ESCAPE_CHARACTER ="" KEEPESCAPECHAR ="NO" LINESEQUENTIAL ="NO" NULLCHARTYPE ="ASCII" NULL_CHARACTER ="*" PADBYTES ="1" QUOTE_CHARACTER ="NONE" REPEATABLE ="NO" ROWDELIMITER ="0" SKIPROWS ="0" STRIPTRAILINGBLANKS ="NO"/>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Guru.
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Pratik4891
# 6  
Old 09-13-2011
Thanks for the reply

But there is a minor issue when I create the file manually by copy paste (file1.txt) and by the command (file1_new.txt) and compare the two files via cmp command its giving

cmp: EOF on file1_new.txt

The two files are not same because these are xml files and I am not able to import properly when I am using the above command

---------- Post updated at 05:05 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:52 AM ----------

Actually the issue is when I use the command it deletes the last line

Code:
 
</POWERMART>

Please let me know how to solve that
# 7  
Old 09-13-2011
You don't have the last newline symbol in your "f1" file. You can fix this with
Code:
(cat f1; echo) | sed '6r f'

If you want delete the previous 6th line, then do
Code:
...| sed '6{
d
rf
}'
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