find | xargs cat

asal_email · #1 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

Hai I just want to find a file *.txt in particular direcotry and display the file name puls the content. Do someone know hot to do this, thanks.

I try :
find test/ -name '*.txt' | xargs cat

but It does'nt print out the file name, i want something below print out in my screen :

test/1.txt
this is content of 1.txt
test/2.txt
this is content of 2.txt
... so on

instead of :

this is content of 1.txt
this is content of 2.txt
... so on, which is what my previous script does.

Thanks for your help

Ygor · #2 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

| xargs head -1000000

asal_email · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

Thanks, it really works. but when I want to put in standard output it takes a very slow processing.

Do u know other way using sed or awk ?
since I want to print other thing after the file name and save in standard ouput e.g:

test/1.txt
new text at beginning
content of 1.txt
new text at ending
test/2.txt
new text at beginning
content of 2.txt
new text at ending

the new text at beginning and new text at ending will be the same for every file.

sglinux · #4 (**permalink**) 03-16-2005

How about trying this one....

find . -type f -name *.txt -print

Let me know does it work for you or not.....

reborg · #5 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005

Code:

 ksh/bash

for file in $(find test -type f -name "*.txt") ; do
    echo ${file}
    echo "New text at the start"
    cat ${file}
    echo "new text at the end"
done

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