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Old 01-26-2013
Concatenate 560 files in one

HI all,
could please help me in this code. I have 560 files containing the same columns but different rows. i want to concatenate all these files in one big file. i want to keep the header of the first file then add the dat from other files horizontally.
the name of my files contains 2 variables : chunk number and chromosome number. this an example

code:
IMP_chunk11-chr6_file

i have tried this code but it works only for one variable and 22 files. anu suggestion to adapt it to my case

code :


Code:
for p in 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
do
more +2 EUR.chr${p}.Fst > EUR.chr${p}.Fst.tmp
done

cp EUR.chr1.Fst EUR.chr1.Fst.tmp

cat EUR.chr*.Fst.tmp > EUR.all.Fst

thank you veru much

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Last edited by bakunin; 01-26-2013 at 06:29 PM..
# 2  
Old 01-26-2013
Code:
p=2
k=0
cat EUR.1.fst >EUR.all.fst
    while [ p -lt 561 ]
        do
             while read line
               do
                if [ k -eq 1 ]
                  then
                           echo "$line" >>EUR.all.fst
                  fi
            k=1
        done <EUR.${p}.Fst
       p=`expr $p + 1`
       k=0
done

Untested
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Old 01-26-2013
You didn't tell us if there is any naming convention on the file names, so it is difficult to suggest a loop where you don't have to name the possible file names but instead generate them. In any case the loop you use should NOT be a for-loop, because it can break if a file glob expands to something you didn't foresee.

Instead, use a while-loop, like this:

Code:
ls <some-file-glob> | while read filename ; do
     # do something with "$filename"
done

To add a file to another without the first two lines you can use "sed":

Code:
sed -n '3,$ p' inputfile >> collectfile

So, putting it together, your script could look like this - you will have to supply the correct file glob instead of "*input", which i used for demonstration purposes:

Code:
#! /bin/ksh

typeset outfile="/path/to/output"
typeset infile=""

rm -rf "$outfile" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

ls *input | while read infile ; do
     if [ -e "$outfile" ] ; then
          sed -n '3,$ p' "$infile" >> "$outfile"
     else
          cp "$infile" "$outfile"
     fi
done

This will copy the first input-file (preserving the 2-line header) and cut off the header of any following file. "if [ -e <filename> ]" means: if "<filename>" exists and is a regular file. Because any eventually existing output file is deleted prior to the loop this is not the case with the first file.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 4  
Old 01-26-2013
thanks so much Bakunin for your help,
i created a filelist with all the names for the files that i want to concatenate. as you can see attached in "files_name" the names of these files is doest fellow a rules.
how can you script be adjusted to this please
thanks again
# 5  
Old 01-26-2013
I think that you can change the above to:
Code:
p=2
k=0 
cat file1 >>EUR.all.Fst     
while read file         
do              
while read line                
do                 
if [ k -eq 1 ]                   
   then                            echo "$line" >>EUR.all.fst
 fi             
k=1         
done <$file         
k=0 
done <file.list

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# 6  
Old 01-27-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by biopsy
how can you script be adjusted to this please
If you already have the list in a file, just "cat" it into the loop. The loop just takes one file name in every run, so as long as you provide this one filename all is fine. "ls" would have provided such a list of file names and "cat /path/to/yourlist" can too. Therefore replace:

Code:
# ls *input | while read infile ; do
cat /path/to/your/file | while read infile ; do

This will do the trick, just modify the script above.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 7  
Old 01-27-2013
Just shell and cat:
Code:
{
  read filename
  cat "$filename"
  while read filename
  do
     {
       read                 # use "read; read" to skip two header lines
       cat
     } < "$filename"
  done
} < file_name.txt > concatenated_file

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