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# 1  
Old 05-16-2014
Replace two values in a file with input from two different files
Hi,

I was having the following issue

Code:
cat input

hello1, my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, hello2!

Code:
cat hello1.txt
Hi Friends
Hi Folks
Hi Well-Wishers

Code:
cat hello2.txt
Honey
Sweety
Darling

Required Output

1. I should be getting three files, which is nothing but the same as wc -l of hello1.txt and hello2.txt.
3. Each line in hello1.txt is related to the same line in hello2.txt. Which means, Hi Friends is related to Honey. Hi Folks is related to Sweety and Hi Well-Wishers is related to Darling.
4. The three files will be like this

Code:
cat output1
Hi Friends, my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Honey!

Code:
cat output2
Hi Folks, my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Sweety!

Code:
cat output3
Hi Well-Wishers, my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Darling!

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 05-16-2014
try
Code:
 awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]"!"}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input

output
Code:
[Makarand] # awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]"!"}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input
Hi Friends,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Honey!
Hi Folks,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Sweety!
Hi Well-Wishers,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Darling!

for 3 files
Code:
awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]"!"}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input| | sed -n '1,1p'  > output1

Code:
awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]"!"}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input| sed -n '2,2p' > oouput2

Code:
awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]"!"}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input| sed -n '3,3p' > output3

Last edited by Makarand Dodmis; 05-16-2014 at 11:22 AM..
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jacobs.smith
# 3  
Old 05-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Makarand Dodmis
try
Code:
awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input

output
Code:
[Makarand] # awk '{A[++c] = $0} END { for ( i = 1; i <=3; i++ ) {print A[i]","A[c]A[i+3]}}' hello1.txt hello2.txt input
Hi Friends,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Honey
Hi Folks,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Sweety
Hi Well-Wishers,my name is unix.com. I am awesome. Hope you know this, Darling

Makarand,

Thanks for the reply.

There are multiple hello1s and hello2s in the input file at on different lines. Like a paragraph filled with hello1 and hello2 and other text.

I just gave you a simple example.

Your code is not replacing all the instances of hello1 and hello2 and in addition it is printing the hello1 and hello2 into the output file. Any pointers, please?

Thanks a lot for your time.
Last edited by jacobs.smith; 05-16-2014 at 11:58 AM.. Reason: More info included.
# 4  
Old 05-16-2014
Could you please post the code you have now - the one that fails?
Then post exactly the output you want to get.

I do not get why you say wc -l should match for each file after you run your command.
# 5  
Old 05-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Could you please post the code you have now - the one that fails?
Then post exactly the output you want to get.

I do not get why you say wc -l should match for each file after you run your command.
Jim,

I was talking about the hello1.txt and hello2.txt file record numbers and not the output file counts.
# 6  
Old 05-16-2014
Okay - given what you said you want all three #1 records from each file output onto the same line in the new file. New file has three lines, each the result of concatenation.

That is what related means. In the interest of getting the thread going this code does that. But I'll bet it is not what you meant. Lacking examples of output you therefore get:

Code:
awk '{arr[FNR]=arr[FNR] $0} END {for(i in arr) {print arr[i]}}'  \
    file1 file2 file3 > file4

# 7  
Old 05-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Okay - given what you said you want all three #1 records from each file output onto the same line in the new file. New file has three lines, each the result of concatenation.

That is what related means. In the interest of getting the thread going this code does that. But I'll bet it is not what you meant. Lacking examples of output you therefore get:

Code:
awk '{arr[FNR]=arr[FNR] $0} END {for(i in arr) {print arr[i]}}'  \
    file1 file2 file3 > file4

No, Jim. You got me wrong.

I want to replace hello1 in my input with the content from hello1.txt. And hello2 from my input in hello2.txt.

So, for each line in hello1.txt and hello2.txt, and each presence of hello1 and hello2 in the input, I want separate files.

Thanks for your time.
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