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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers looping through subdirectories Post 302208378 by er_ashu on Monday 23rd of June 2008 05:36:34 PM
Old 06-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by NYankz
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.
Many thanks........
 

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