for one, wouldn't either less or more (or even view) serve better than cat? I'm assuming it's more of an interactive session you're looking for...? While find does allow for its own -exec parameter, xargs is faster by a long-shot.
However, it reads as though your problem is more so with the terminal than the shell commands...
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find command works correctly and when I copy and paste the output of that with a preceeding 'cat'
Have you tried to wrap the whole mess into a simple script like the following:
Code:
for item in $(find . -type f -name "developer.txt" ) ;do cat $item ;done
This will just do a massive screen dump, which I doubt is what you'd want... Swapping in other utils, like less, more or view will retain some composure and allow you to view and/or exit the file(s) individually.
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... (4 Replies)
I'm using Imagemagick to create thumbnails for a large directory tree. The only thing I can't see is how to get it to write the thumbnails to a "thumbs" subdirectory!
Either of these two commands from the Imagemagick site does most of the job:
find -name '*.jpg' | xargs -n1 sh -c 'convert $0... (5 Replies)
I am trying to delete files older than 60 days from a folder:
find /myfolder/*.dat -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
ERROR - argument list too long: find
I can't just give the folder name, as there are some files that I don't want to delete. So i need to give with the pattern (*.dat). I can... (3 Replies)
hi,
i've been trying to figure this weird error but I cannot seem to know why. I am using below find command:
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f -mtime +365 -print
The above code returns no file because no files are really more then 365 days old. However, when I use xargs, its... (9 Replies)
Guys i want to run a command to list all directories that havn't been modified in over 548 days ( 1.5 yrs ).
Id like to run a script to first print what the command finds ( so i get a list of the files pre move ... i have a script set for this :
find /Path/Of\ Target/Directory/ -type d -mtime... (4 Replies)
How can I recursively find all files in a directory and print out the file and first line number of any text blocks that match the below cases?
This would seem to involve find, xargs, *grep, regex, etc.
In summary, I want to find so-called empty "try-catch blocks" that do not contain code... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
i'm trying to create a tar of all the .txt files i find in my dir . I've used xargs to acheive this but i wanted to do this with exec and looks like it only archives the last file it finds . can some one advice what's wrong here :
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I want to find some files and then search for some lines in it with a particular pattern and then write those lines into a file. To do this I am using something like this from command prompt directly.
cd /mdat/BVG
find -name "stmt.*cl" -newer temp.txt | xargs -i awk '/BVG-/{print}' {} >... (7 Replies)
Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post. I used command line Unix at work for 3 years... about 10 years ago! Now I can't figure out nor hunt down examples of how to do the following:
Say I built a list of file to backup like this:
find ~ -name "*.pdf" -print >> MYPDF.txt
So I am using find... (6 Replies)
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gnomevfs-cat
gnomevfs-cat(1) User Commands gnomevfs-cat(1)NAME
gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system
SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-cat URI
DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server
example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com
Example 2: Cat a Local File
example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-cat(1)