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Old 08-24-2006
Unix basic help
What command would I use to list the first lines of all
text files within my Unix directory or within any directory
inside there? I was using "find" , "head" and "-exec" commands like this:

find ~/Unix -name "*.txt" -exec head {} \;

But its not perfectly working, please help me. thanks
# 2  
Old 08-24-2006
This might work?
Code:
for file in ~/Unix/*.txt; do
   head $file
done

# 3  
Old 08-24-2006
Try...
Code:
find ~/Unix -type f -name '*.txt' -print | xargs head

 
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