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[SecksyTyger]

I'm trying to create a script that basically pulls all of the information from 5 different files from 5 different directories and saves the information into one file. Then pulling some information from this newly saved file along with some other files located in the same directory to one final file (They are all .txt files). I've tried many scenarios but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

you're not giving us much to go on--

cat /dir_1/file /dir_2/file /dir_3/file /dir_4/file /dir_5/file >>big_file

should collect them all: but then what?

[Rubberman]

Assuming you need to filter the files somewhat:

cat /dir1/file /dir2/file /dir3/file /dir4/file /dir5/file | filter1 >/otherdir/first_results
cat /otherdir/first_results /otherdir/file1 ... /otherdir/fileN | filter2 >/otherdir/final_results

There are many ways to do what you want, and it depends upon what you are trying to accomplish and how you need to filter the data to get what you need. A filter can be as simple as a grep/egrep regular expression, to a full awk/grep/sed script.

[SecksyTyger]

I have five different directories: Houseware, Electronics, WomenApp, MenApp, ChildApp. Within each directory there is a file called Sales. I need all the information from those files to be saved into the preceding directory of President to be called SalesFinal.

Also in the President directory are two other files called Phonebook and Personnel. I would all three files to be put into one file called Report. But I want to use only some of the information. The Phonebook file has just a name and number (John Doe (TAB)(604-555-1234). The Personnel file has name position and department (John Doe (TAB)Associate (TAB)(Housewares). The output of SalesFinal should be name and sales amount (John Doe $12,342 with the Total of each file at the bottom).

The final output of Report should look something like this:
John Doe XXX-XXX-1234 Associate Housewares $12,342
The last five lines should have the Totals for each dept (Total Elect $42,231)
The phone numbers of all the employees have the same area code and starter numbers (604-555). I just need the last four.

And then from that Report I would like to use only the employees who have the highest sales amount from each department and the totals for each department to be saved into WeeklyReport.

Can this be done? Or did I overcomplicate things?

[SecksyTyger]

I got the SalesFinal file to work just like I want it using the above command you supplied earlier THANKS!

Now to work on the others.

[kurtdriver]

This looks an awful lot like a homework question, which are disallowed by the form rules.

[SecksyTyger]

Actually, I'm using this simplistic method to create more complicated files later on.