Extraction of data from multiple text files, and creation of a chart - Shell Programming and Scripting

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Don't use cshell - sounds like you are in university... Do you have bash or ksh or even Bourne? There are very valid reasons for avoiding csh.

Here is a non- Cshell answer

Code:

find /desktop/data_2005  -name '*AZU1_fix.txt' |
while read filename
do
     awk '{ printf("%s ", $5)} END {printf("\n")} ' $filename
done | tr -s ' ' ',' > data_2005.csv