[TriLUG] OT - Help merging multiple files into a single file

[Andrew Perrin]

What about something like:

cat * | sort | uniq > /tmp/newsudoers

(UNTESTED but I would expect it to work)

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, howard.x.boyd at gsk.com wrote:

> Could someone please suggest a unix command or utility that will help me
> merge the contents of multiple files into a single file. We currently have
> 200+ AIX systems with a /etc/sudoers file on each server. The contents of
> these files may or may not be the same. The goal is to examine the
> contents of all the files and merge them into a single master sudoers file
> that will be maintained and periodically pushed out to all the servers.
> Would appreciate any suggestions or ideas on how best to accomplish this
> task. Thanks,
>
> Howard
>
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