1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 | #!/bin/bash # Write a shell script to combine any three text files into a single file # (append them in the order as then appear in the arguments) and display # the word count. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Copyright (c) 2001 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/> # This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- file1=$1 file2=$2 file3=$3 out="output.$$" count=0 if [ $# -ne 3 ] then echo "$(basename $0) file1 file2 file3" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f $file1 ] then echo "$file1 not a file!" exit 2 fi if [ ! -f $file2 ] then echo "$file2 not a file!" exit 3 fi if [ ! -f $file3 ] then echo "$file3 not a file!" exit 4 fi cat $file1 $file2 $file3 >> $out count=$(cat $out | wc -w) echo "$count words written to $out" |
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There is a typo error on line 36:
if [ ! -f $file ]
should be
if [ ! -f $file3 ]
Thanks for the heads up!
There’s also this really nice command called:
$ cat file1 file2 file3 >combine