The simplest way is to use grep - or specifically the fgrep version
fgrep -H "" file1 file2 file3 the -H shows the file name at the start of the line the "" means match on null so return all lines. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2007 05:47 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unix cat help Outstanding!!! Thanks very much to you, Adrian, Rodney, John, and Stewart. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stewart Leicester wrote: > > > perl -lne 'print "$ARGV*$_"' file1 file2 | sort -t* -k2,99 > > newfile > > Or just do it in awk: > > awk '{printf("%s*%s\n",FILENAME,$0)}' file1 file2 | sort -t* > -k2,999 > > Gotta say I was surprised that the '*' delimeter in the sort > command didn't need to be escaped with \, but it doesn't. > > Cheers, > > Ken > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
