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auto helpTextVerbose =
q"EOS
Synopsis: tsv-append [options] [file...]
tsv-append concatenates multiple TSV files, similar to the Unix 'cat' utility.
Unlike 'cat', it is header aware ('--H|header'), writing the header from only
the first file. It also supports source tracking, adding a column indicating
the original file to each row. Results are written to standard output.
Concatenation with header support is useful when preparing data for traditional
Unix utilities like 'sort' and 'sed' or applications that read a single file.
Source tracking is useful when creating long/narrow form tabular data, a format
used by many statistics and data mining packages. In this scenario, files have
been used to capture related data sets, the difference between data sets being a
condition represented by the file. For example, results from different variants
of an experiment might each be recorded in their own files. Retaining the source
file as an output column preserves the condition represented by the file.
The file-name (without extension) is used as the source value. This can
customized using the --f|file option.
Example: Header processing:
$ tsv-append -H file1.tsv file2.tsv file3.tsv
Example: Header processing and source tracking:
$ tsv-append -H -t file1.tsv file2.tsv file3.tsv
Example: Source tracking with custom values:
$ tsv-append -H -s test_id -f test1=file1.tsv -f test2=file2.tsv
Options:
EOS";
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