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Merging Files in Unix

May 9, 2008

You have multiple files in containing data in similar format and wanted to consolidate in a single file. This is usually the case if you have a daily log that you want to place an archive copy in a single file in weekly or in monthly, yearly. The basic syntax of merging file is cat [...]

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Writing Files in Unix

May 9, 2008

To write files in Unix, the syntax is echo > Example echo “This is my message.” > myfile.txt To add another line in the myfile.txt, use the following syntax. echo “This is my second message.” >> myfile.txt You may notice that double greater than sign (>>) is used instead of single greater than sign. This [...]

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