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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers looping through subdirectories Post 302208368 by NYankz on Monday 23rd of June 2008 05:06:04 PM
Old 06-23-2008
ls -1R|grep :$|sed 's/:$//g'| awk '{print $1"/*"}'|xargs cat > bigfile


ls -1R #recursively searches all files in all subdirectories

grep :$ #will show all lines which end in :, this is a list of all the sub directories.

sed 's/:$//g' #removes the : from the end so you only get the full path of the directories, at this point if you want to limit which sub directories you can put in a grep statement.

awk '{print $1"/*"}' #formats the directory path to include all files in the sub directory you can change that to: awk '{print $1/"*.log"}' if you want log files only.

xargs cat #will run all of the arguments through cat which are piped into it, at this point you'd be running cat on all the files in all your sub directories

then obviously > will pipe it to a file


*edit* and yes i'm very bored at work.
 

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vidir

VIDIR(1)																  VIDIR(1)

NAME

       vidir - edit directory

SYNOPSIS

       vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-] ...

DESCRIPTION

       vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

       When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are how vidir keeps track of what
       items are changed. Delete lines to remove files from the directory, or edit filenames to rename files. You can also switch pairs of numbers
       to swap filenames.

       Note that if "-" is specified as the directory to edit, it reads a list of filenames from stdin and displays those for editing.
       Alternatively, a list of files can be specified on the command line.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	   Verbosely display the actions taken by the program.

EXAMPLES

       vidir
       vidir *.jpeg
	   Typical uses.

       find | vidir -
	   Edit subdirectory contents too. To delete subdirectories, delete all their contents and the subdirectory itself in the editor.

       find -type f | vidir -
	   Edit all files under the current directory and subdirectories.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       EDITOR
	   Editor to use.

       VISUAL
	   Also supported to determine what editor to use.

AUTHOR

       Copyright 2006 by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

       Licensed under the GNU GPL.

moreutils							    2010-04-28								  VIDIR(1)
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