Re: need help with a bash script

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Fabio Zyserman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> sorry if this is not the appropriate list to post my question,
> but surely more than one guru here will be able to
> guide me in my modest quest.
>
> Here is my problem:
>
>
> I have a lot of data files, which differ in their name by a number,
> for example:
> data-theta=0-np=1.2
> data-theta=0-np=1.3
> data-theta=0-np=1.4,
> ...and so on.
>
> All files have the same structure (same number of columns and lines);
> each single entry is a real number in free exp format, i.e. it looks
> like this:
> 0.1224e01, but it is not important, I think
>
> What I want to do is to create a new file, with one line from each of the
> data files (say, line beginning with 0.01e00), adding to each line in
> the new file the number appearing in the name of the corresponding data
> file.
> That is, the new file will contain one more column than the original
> ones; the new
> file would be
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.2
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.3
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.4
> .
> .
> Hope you can help!!!!
>
> Many Thanks in advance!
>

You probably want something along these lines:

#!/bin/bash

for file in `ls|grep data-theta`;
do
         number=$(echo $file|awk -F '=' '{print $3}');
         line=$(grep '0.01e00' $file);
         echo $line $number;
done;

Hope that helps.

-bz

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