Recursively concatenate files in subdirectories with the same folder name

joyce007 · #1 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

I'm trying to concatenate files in subdirectories with the same folder name. Say concatenate all the files in the 'current' subdirectories in 'Literature' parent directory.

Literature/USA/current/
Literature/Europe/current/

Can anyone help with it? Thanks a lot!

thegeek · #2 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

1. this works, but not to a great extent.

Code:

$ cat script.sh 
for i in `find . -not -iname '.' -type d`
do
echo $i
cd $i
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec cat {} >> ./$i.file \;
cd ..
done

2. you have this same question already here..
recursively concatenate files in subdirectories with same folder name

3. try editing that script to your need, for clarifications come here again..

shamrock · #3 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

A oneline title with nothing in the msg body wont help...provide an example of what you mean by all this.

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