Shell script request

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I've a master file which will contain 100 file names, The script should read file name from a master file and format the file as below in AIX.

input file

Filename

This
is
a
test
file

Output File

Filename|This is a test file

Thanks in advance

for file in $FileList; do 
echo $file; 
FileName=`basename $file`; 
sed  's/^M//g' $file> "${file}"2;
mv "${file}"2 "${file}"; 
sed '1d'  "${file}" >"${file}"1; 
mv "${file}"1 $file; 
sed 's/^$/|/'|tr "\n\r" "  " > "${file}"1
mv "${file}"1 $file; 
done

This is doing nothing. I'm not good at sed. Please help.

2

what have you tried? where do you need help?

3

What Operating System and version do you have? What Shell do you use?

You seem to refer to ^M a lot (which I interpret as intending to mean ctrl/M or carriage-return).
Is the input file a Microsoft format text file with carriage-return line-feed at the end of each line? Or is this a normal unix text file with just line-feed at the end of the line. Or is this an old MAC format text file with carriage-return at the end of each line?

Does Filename occur at the top of each file called Filename?

4

Hi

I'm using bash shell in AIX 6.1
^M microsoft text
Yes its a Microsoft format text file with carriage-return line-feed at the end of each line

No the file name I've mentioned in example will be a free test like "Null in a Not Null column" or "0 Length Char". This will be standard in all files.

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Duplicate topic, continue here.