# Shell script request

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652>\
**Category:** Shell Programming and Scripting\
**Created:** [April 2, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652 "2012-04-02T10:34:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![udayakumar](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/udayakumar/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@udayakumar](https://community.unix.com/u/udayakumar)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/1 "2012-04-02T10:34:47Z")

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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

```nohighlight
Filename

This
is
a
test
file

```

Output File

```nohighlight
Filename|This is a test file

```

Thanks in advance

```nohighlight
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.

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**Author:** ![DukeNuke2](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/dukenuke2/32/407_2.png) [@DukeNuke2](https://community.unix.com/u/DukeNuke2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/2 "2012-04-02T10:51:02Z")

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what have you tried? where do you need help?

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**Author:** ![methyl](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/methyl/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@methyl](https://community.unix.com/u/methyl)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/3 "2012-04-02T12:49:14Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![udayakumar](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/udayakumar/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@udayakumar](https://community.unix.com/u/udayakumar)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/4 "2012-04-02T13:27:49Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Corona688](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/corona688/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Corona688](https://community.unix.com/u/Corona688)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/5 "2012-04-02T13:31:10Z")

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**Author:** ![Corona688](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/corona688/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Corona688](https://community.unix.com/u/Corona688)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/shell-script-request/307652/6 "2012-04-02T13:31:51Z")

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Duplicate topic, continue [here](http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/180829-unable-run-sed-aix.html#post302616315).