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# 1  
Old 05-23-2012
Adding new line character
Hi All,

i am taking end of records using tail command got the out is "END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 10"
and record count in the file is 3. while append the both data into test2.txt file,it's append like

Code:
END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 108

my output should be in the test2.txt file

Code:
 END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 10,8

i tried like...
Code:
tail -1 test1.txt > test2.txt;
wc -l test1.txt| awk '{print $1-1}' >>test2.txt;

Please help me..

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 05-23-2012
What are you trying to achieve? Do you want last line and no of line of test1.txt ?
# 3  
Old 05-23-2012
While appending the second command using wc to add ",8 " it means record count of the file
Code:
 END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 10,8

# 4  
Old 05-23-2012
Do you mean this?

Code:
awk 'END{print $0,NR}' OFS=, test1.txt

# 5  
Old 05-23-2012
yes,how to add the file count to after tailing...

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Thanks got... it's working fine.. i need one more while taking the file count it is blank lines.. how to exclude...
# 6  
Old 05-24-2012
i tried with huge file as given command it' not working...if we tried with big file working fine.
Code:
awk 'END{print $0,NR}' OFS=, test1.txt

if it is big file
Code:
 ,1326543

but end of file record as like
Code:
 END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 1326542

i am excepting is

Code:
 END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 1326542,1326543

Thanks lot...
# 7  
Old 05-24-2012
Post the output of last 10 lines of the BIG file.
Code:
tail BIG_file

Also, Are you sure the BIG file is a valid unix file. (doesn't contain invalid \r)
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