how to sort these files?

[jasoncook16]

file a:
ffffff eee ccc r 12 ddd fff

file b:
k ccc bbbb zzz nnn eeeee aaaaaaaaa 3

how to combine a and b to c
shows like:

12 3 aaaaaaaaa bbbb ccc ddd eee eeeee fff ffffff k nnn r zzz

Please Help

[Cabhan]

So there are a few steps here:

1) Split the lines in each file to put a single word on each line

2) Combine the two files

3) Sort the resulting file

4) Collapse all of the lines into a single line

Knowing this, do you know how to do any of these steps?

[jasoncook16]

So there are a few steps here:

1) Split the lines in each file to put a single word on each line

2) Combine the two files

3) Sort the resulting file

4) Collapse all of the lines into a single line

Knowing this, do you know how to do any of these steps?

if you could help, i will appreciate.
I dont really know the syntax in scripting. I understand the steps

[Cabhan]

Do you know anything about programming or scripting? If not, that may be a good place to start. I'm hesitant to just give you a script, because then you don't actually learn anything from this.

There's documentation available called man pages that can be accessed by "man COMMAND". This gives you a nice overview of various commands.

For step 1, you may want to look into "cut". Step 2 would be "cat", 3 is "sort", and 4 is actually pretty complicated. For step 4, we could use sed, which is actually a small programming language that lets you manipulate text.

If you look up the programs for 1 - 3 and give me some idea of how to do them, I'll give you the sed command.

Out of curiosity, what do you need this for?

[Garius]

jason,

You can try with:

sed 's/\s/\n/g' filea fileb | sort -d | tr '\n' ' '

Explanation:
sed 's/\s/\n/g' filea fileb -->Convert spaces (s) to end of line (\n) for both files, the output combines both files content.
sort -d --> Sort in dictionary order with option "-d"
tr '\n' ' ' --> Convert again the end of lines (\n) to spaces putting the column in a single line (transpose)

Hope it helps.

[jasoncook16]

Do you know anything about programming or scripting? If not, that may be a good place to start. I'm hesitant to just give you a script, because then you don't actually learn anything from this.

There's documentation available called man pages that can be accessed by "man COMMAND". This gives you a nice overview of various commands.

For step 1, you may want to look into "cut". Step 2 would be "cat", 3 is "sort", and 4 is actually pretty complicated. For step 4, we could use sed, which is actually a small programming language that lets you manipulate text.

If you look up the programs for 1 - 3 and give me some idea of how to do them, I'll give you the sed command.

Out of curiosity, what do you need this for?

Thanks for your information.
I know programming...but not scripting.
Im trying to work on it.

[jasoncook16]

BTW, do I have to use For loop or IF statement here??
I am really confused by those syntax...@.@

[jasoncook16]

while read myline
do
echo $myline
done < ~/Desktop/a > ~/Desktop/c
while read mywords
do
echo $mywords
done < ~/Desktop/b > ~/Desktop/d
paste d c > ~/Desktop/e
while read line
do
echo $line
done < ~/Desktop/e > ~/Desktop/f
awk '{gsub(" ","\n"); print}' f > ~/Desktop/g
sort ~/Desktop/g > ~/Desktop/h
rm c
rm d
rm e
rm f
rm g

here is my code for the first 3 steps
figuring out last step

[Garius]

jason

Did the solution I put above work for your problem?