Shell Programming and Scripting

raj, your code works well although it does create an extraneous column of data (column 8) that doesn't appear to correlate to anything in the two input files, and it also leaves out one column of data, but I can live with these. Also, I had to remove the $3 in the print statement

raj, the output files from your code get named: outputfile1.txt outputfile1+1.txt outputfile2+1.txt etc. is there a simple way for it to add the values together


elixir, your code also ran on the files, but only gave one output file that the data was from the last set of inputfiles in the directory. I think all the previous are getting overwritten. Your code produced two extraneous columns of data that doesn't correlate to either of the inputfiles. Columns 6 and 9

I really realy thank you guys sooo much for helping me, hopefully these little qwerkies are easy to fix???

atjurhs I had not made any changes to your code related to output of column in awk statment.
As for the file name is concerned check the value of $i coming in the code on your system. As for me its giving correct value. Try replace ${i} with $i also in output file name.

If still not working get back to me with $i value.

raj, I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear. In part of the code you had written

Code:

{print $1,$2,$3"_L000102.txt"}

and in order for it to run without a sybtax error, I re-wrote it as

Code:

{print $1,$2"_L000102.txt"}

also by trial and error I fixed the outputfile1+1.txt format by commenting out

Code:

i=$(expr $i + 1)

and just using

Code:

(( i = i+1))

I still need to figure out where the extraneous columns are coming from but as it is it meets my needs

is your problem solved now or still output file is not as you expected.
have you printed the value of $i with my code.

it's mostly solved, and I say only because I still get one extraneous column and it leaves out one column.

as for printing $i can I just throw in print$i statements wherever I like?

thanxs Tabitha