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akhx Posted messages 1 Status Member -  
shadoxys Posted messages 3 Status Member -
Hello, I need to merge 3 text files into 1 and then separate them with ****** (aster). I can't figure out which command I could use in conjunction with Cat. I'm using Fedora 14.

Thank you in advance.

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dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 659
 
hello 
(cat file1 ; echo "*****" ; cat file2 ; echo "******" ; cat file3) >file
or use head to have a separator 
head -999999 file1 file2 file3 >file
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Answer 2 / 5
Anonymous user
 
hi,

with cat only, I don't see how to do it :(
well yes, if you have control of the terminal
cat fic1 - fic2 - fic3

you type *****, then Enter, then Ctrl-D, each time the command returns the terminal.
but it's not very convenient ;)

can you use other tools?

with sed
sed -s '$a*****' fic1 fic2 fic3

with awk
awk '{if(NR>FNR){NR=1; printf("%s\n%s\n","*****",$0)}else{print}}' fic1 fic2 fic3
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shadoxys Posted messages 3 Status Member 1
 
Thank you so much for your answers. It's exactly what I was looking for. This is my first time posting on this site and wow, what a result! Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. See you later, guys!
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jeanbi Posted messages 15399 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 383
 
hello,
cat file1 file2 file3 >file
a+
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shadoxys Posted messages 3 Status Member 1
 
Pour this part it’s fine, actually what I would like to do is once the 3 texts are gathered, I would like to separate the texts in the new file with ***. Simply to be able to distinguish them.
cat fichier1 fichier2 fichier3 > fichier | ??????
Thank you
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