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Old 01-26-2013
[Solved] Help with grep script
Hi,
I'm having trouble with a script to copy one line out of multiple files in a directory and copy to a file called test. I've tried the code below but it copies one line out of the first file multiple times not one line out of all the files. Would someone help? I'm very new to all this.

Many thanks,
Bob

Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.CSV
do
    sed -n '10p' *.CSV >> test
done

Last edited by radoulov; 01-26-2013 at 01:31 PM.. Reason: Marked as solved.
# 2  
Old 01-26-2013
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.CSV
do
    sed -n '10p' "${i}" >> test
done

# 3  
Old 01-26-2013
Thank you but I still get the same result. One line out of the first file multiple times.
# 4  
Old 01-26-2013
It should work, remove the file: test and rerun the script.
# 5  
Old 01-26-2013
help with grep script
These are two of the files in the directory I want to copy line 10 from and copy to file "test":

574 McClain.0101.CSV 574 McClain.0103.CSV

when I run the script with the ${i} included, the file "test" is generated but is empty and Unix responds with:

Code:
sed: 574: No such file or directory
sed: McClain.0101.CSV: No such file or directory
sed: 574: No such file or directory
sed: McClain.0103.CSV: No such file or directory

Do you think this is a grep issue?

Many thanks for your help.
Bob
Last edited by radoulov; 01-26-2013 at 01:31 PM..
# 6  
Old 01-26-2013
Did you wrap variable ${i} around double quotes like I posted above?
Code:
sed -n '10p' "${i}" >> test

# 7  
Old 01-26-2013
help with sed script
It worked with the quotes!! but it copies each file twice. Any thoughts on why?
I can live with this if there are no fixes.

Thanks you so much.
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