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# 1  
Old 10-21-2011
Combine the lines from separate text files
Hi All,

I have three separate text files which has only one line and i want to combine these lines in one text file which will have three lines.

Code:
 
cat file1.txt

abc

Code:
 
cat file2.txt

1265 6589 1367

Code:
cat file3.txt

0.98 0.36 0.5

So, I want to see these three lines in the output.txt look like

Code:
 
cat output.txt

abc
1265 6589 1367
0.98 0.36 0.5

i used

Code:
 
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt > output.txt

which has only 1 line but i want 3 lines.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-21-2011
Code:
cat fil*.txt >>output.txt

Too simple?
# 3  
Old 10-21-2011
I think i should add a new line to the end of each file1.txt file2.txt and file3.txt. Then cat command can work? How can i add a new line to the end of the line of each files?

Thanks
# 4  
Old 10-21-2011
Unless you know for a fact the files don't end in newlines, they almost certainly do.

Did you try it? Did it work or not?
# 5  
Old 10-21-2011
Have you tried the given code?
# 6  
Old 10-21-2011
Ok. I figured it out.

Code:
 
sed 's/.$/\n/g' file1.txt
sed 's/.$/\n/g' file2.txt
sed 's/.$/\n/g' file3.txt
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt > output.txt

Thanks.
# 7  
Old 10-21-2011
Those seds just print to the terminal because you don't save their output anywhere. They don't "fix" your files. Chop them out.

Since it works, your files obviously don't need fixing. The original suggestion works.
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