uniontable - compute the union of starbase data tables.
SYNOPSYS
uniontable [-o ~ofile] table1 table2 [tablen] ...
uniontable computes the union of two or more tables. It concatenates the
rows of all the tables into one larger table. All the rows and all the
columns of all the tables in the union appear in the output table.
EXAMPLES
Here is the union of three tables showing how columns are aligned bwtween tables and rows are concatenated.
john@panic : cat foo
X Name Y
- ---- -
4.5 Star1 5000
435 Star2_bk 4.3
2300 Star3 2.04
john@panic : cat gab
X
-
1
5
john@panic : cat tab
X Y Z
- - -
1 3 4
8 9 0
john@panic : diffrtable gab tab
X
-
5
john@panic : uniontable tab gab foo
X Y Z Name
- - - ----
1 3 4
8 9 0
1
5
4.5 5000 Star1
435 4.3 Star2_bk
2300 2.04 Star3