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Old 02-26-2009
Lost file
I have another problem. I have a text file in which I had written a number of quotations to use in my paper. Luckily, I know that the file is somewhere in my ~/UnixCourse directory or in some subdirectory directly or indeirently within it. I also know that the file name ended in '.txt'. I know i can recognize the file from just the first line.
I seem to recall having heard that there is a Unix command head that will print the first few lines of any file and suspect that, with the proper parameters, it could be used to print just the first line. But I really don't want to type that command out for every file or even every directory. What command would I need 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:
/home/yourname/UnixCourse/foo.txtWhen in the course of human development/home/yourname/UnixCourse/Quotations/bar.txtCuriouser and curiouser!I know I need to use a find command to walk through the subdirectoriesPlease help! Thanks in advance!!!
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Old 02-26-2009
By lost you mean - I cannot find it - or it doesn't exist?

If 'I cannot find it' try:
Code:
find /directory/path/to/search -user myusername -name '*.txt' |
while read filename
do
      echo "$filename"
      head -2 $filename
done

If it doesn't exist we cannot help.
 
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