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Concatenate Files with similar name
Name: badhri Date: January 29, 2004 at 16:05:52 Pacific OS: Saun Solaris CPU/Ram: 8
Comment:
Greeting.
I need to concatenate all the files with similar File names. For Example, I have 5 files,
Name: thepubba Date: January 29, 2004 at 17:00:29 Pacific
Reply:
This script will create files named 100, 200 and 300. I put the 400 in there to demonstrate how to handle no files. This script will work with the examples you provided.
#!/bin/ksh for name in 100 200 300 400 do files=$(ls *$name 2> /dev/null) if [[ -z $files ]] then print "No files" else for file in $files do cat $file >> $name done fi sleep 1 done
Jerry
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Response Number 2
Name: badhri Date: January 29, 2004 at 17:10:09 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Jerry,
I cannot hardcode these numbers (100,200,300). I need to dynamically determine this and then do the rest.
Badhri ...
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Response Number 3
Name: thepubba Date: February 1, 2004 at 22:21:51 Pacific
Reply:
When you say dynamically determine them, do you mean by reading the input file? If so, it is fairly easy to read the last portion of the input line by using a typeset in the Korn shell. Let me know and I can modify the script.
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