Maybe some UNIX guru has a more elegant way than this. I do a lot of shell
scripting. So the easiest way to do this was with a script. I am using korn
shell for this. Most U2 people I know avoid shell scripts.
I wrote a quick somewhat generic script to do it called rod.test. You give it
the two file names that you are combining. Here is the script:
# cat rod.test
#!/usr/bin/ksh -x
#script to combine and sort two unix files
script=`basename $0`
newfile="newfile"
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "\n Usage: ${script}: file1 file 2\n"
exit 1
fi
cat $1 | awk ' { print "file1*" $1 } ' > $newfile
cat $2 | awk ' { print "file2*" $1 } '>> $newfile
sort $newfile -t* -k2
The -x in line one will run it in debug mode so you can see each line as it
executes:
./rod.test file1 file2
+ + basename ./rod.test
script=rod.test
+ newfile=newfile
+ [ 2 -lt 2 ]
+ awk { print "file1*" $1 }
+ cat file1
+ 1> newfile
+ awk { print "file2*" $1 }
+ cat file2
+ 1>> newfile
+ sort newfile -t* -k2
file1*line1
file2*line1
file1*line2
file2*line2
file1*line3
file2*line3
If you want to put the output in a third file, add sortedfile to the last line:
sort newfile -t* -k2 > sortedfile
Hope this helps. Also hope I understand what you wanted. If not let me know.
-Rod
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:37 PM
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Subject: [U2] Unix cat help
Hi all,
Hopefully there is a way to do this...
I have 2 unix flat files that I want to merge into 1 file. I know that I can
do something like "cat file1 file2 | sort -o newfile". The problem is that
once I have newfile loaded, I need to know where each line in newfile came
from. I am hoping that unix has something similar to the REUSE() function so I
can prefix each line with the filename. Here is an example of what I would
like to get done.
before...
/sws/scott/temp: pg file1
line1 line1 line1 line1 line1
line2 line2 line2 line2 line2
line3 line3 line3 line3 line3
/sws/scott/temp: pg file2
line1 line1 line1 line1 line1
line2 line2 line2 line2 line2
line3 line3 line3 line3 line3
after...
/sws/scott/temp: pg newfile
file1*line1 line1 line1 line1 line1
file2*line1 line1 line1 line1 line1
file1*line2 line2 line2 line2 line2
file2*line2 line2 line2 line2 line2
file1*line3 line3 line3 line3 line3
file2*line3 line3 line3 line3 line3
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you may have.
Scott Thompson
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