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Old 03-17-2009
DownunderDave DownunderDave is offline
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find | xargs cat

Hi,

I am having trouble getting a combination of commands to work.

I need to traverse through all sub-directories of a certain directory and 'cat' the contents of a particular file in the sub-directories.

The commands on their own work but when I combine them I get no output.

The command I am trying to get working is:
find . -type f -name "developer.txt" | xargs cat

The find command works correctly and when I copy and paste the output of that with a preceeding 'cat', the contents are printed out. However together with the pipe the commands are not working.