Very Computer

i like to format a lot of text files with one call of my script (lets assume
cat is my script). I've done the following:

find * -type f | grep txt$ | xargs cat > ahugefile

The above command writes the contents of all files that end with txt into
one file called 'ahugefile'.
The problem is that i like to create a new file for each sourcefile.
How do i have to modify the above command, that each sorcefile will be piped
into a file with a different name than the
sourcefile?

I hope someone knows...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mike.

You need to use a loop like the one above which works with bash.
You may need to remove the "echo" and a some """, just try it out.

Hope this helps, as I'm not really sure if I understood what you mean?

Michael Heiming

If I see this correctly you are trying to write all file which start with
txt into one big file. correct ?

Quote:> The problem is that i like to create a new file for each sourcefile.
> How do i have to modify the above command, that each sorcefile will be
piped
> into a file with a different name than the
> sourcefile?

first null the file

cat /dev/null > ahugefile

for file in `find * -type f -name 'txt*'`
do
    cat $file >> ahugefile
    cp $file $file.new
done

There are more efficient ways of doing this but I find this to be the
cleanest.

Regards,

Nathan