Homework & Coursework Questions

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I've been stuck on this problem for 2 days now
What command would you enter to list the first lines of all text files within your UnixCourse directory or within any directory inside there?


2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
i know i'm supposed to used 'find' '-exec' and 'head'
the question also says:
But you really don't want to type that command out for every file or even every directory. What command would you give to produce a listing of the names of all the text files in ~/UnixCourse or its subdirectories (possibly nested several layers deep) followed immediately by the first line of text within that file? E.g., to produce a listing looking like this:

Code:

/home/yourname/UnixCourse/foo.txt
When in the course of human development
/home/yourname/UnixCourse/Quotations/bar.txt
Curiouser and curiouser!

Note that the output format must look like the example above. (That's not unreasonable, as one of the things you should have learned from this lesson is that the output of one command is often fed into later commands, which must be able to read it.) In particular, solutions that add extreneous characters around the file name (e.g., << or ==>) are not correct.


3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
here's what i've tried so far:

Code:

find ~/UnixCourse -type file -exec head -1 {} \;
find ~/UnixCourse -name "*.txt" -print -exec head -n1 {} \;
find ~/UnixCourse.*.txt !-type d -print -exec head -n1 {} \;
find ~/UnixCourse. -name "*.txt" ! -type d head -n1 {} \
find ~/UnixCourse -name "*.txt" -print -exec head -n1 {}\;

none of those have worked and it doesn't really give me any feedback other than saying it's not the right answer. any help would be greatly appreciated as I am at my wits end.
4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
odu, chesapeake, va, zeil, cs252


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