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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cat files from subdirectories output using same filename Post 302444797 by agama on Thursday 12th of August 2010 09:55:02 PM
Old 08-12-2010
Something like this should work (assuming that your present working directory contains the 20?? directories.)

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh

target=/tmp/cats
find 20?? -name "*.mp" | while read file
do
        base=${file##*/}    # ditch the directory portion of the filename
        cat $file >>$target/$base.new    # I like to add .new to prevent accidental overwriting while testing!
done

Change target to the directory you want to put the output files into and you're good to go.
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fc-cat

FC-CAT(1)																 FC-CAT(1)

NAME

       fc-cat - read font information cache files

SYNOPSIS

       fc-cat [ -rvVh ]  [ --recurse ]	[ --verbose ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]

	[  [ fonts-cache-%version%-files ]  [ dirs ] ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       fc-cat reads the font information from cache files or related to font directories and emits it in ASCII form.

OPTIONS

       This  program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       -r     Recurse into subdirectories.

       -v     Be verbose.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -V     Show version of the program and exit.

SEE ALSO

       fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)

       The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu>.

								   Aug 13, 2008 							 FC-CAT(1)
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