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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arg list too long error Post 302479100 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 9th of December 2010 08:58:45 PM
Old 12-09-2010
If you have GNU coreutils and your are worried about any of these situations:

files with space in their names
find going into sub-diretories
awk still run once with no files on command line, when no .csv files exist

You can also do:

Code:
( find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.csv" -print0 | xargs -r0 nawk "/Nov 21/{_=2}_&&_--"  ) > $NEWFILE

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 12-09-2010 at 10:07 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       rec2csv [OPTIONS]... [REC_FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Convert rec data into csv data.

       -t, --type=TYPE
	      record set to convert to csv; if this parameter is omitted then the default record set is used

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