Unless I missed it, you never made it clear if the output filename varies with directory and if so how to choose its name. To collect the desired concatenation of all .txt files in a directory, with each file's contents preceded by its filename, the solution that follows will create a file named ALL-TEXT-FILES.txt in each directory
You mention that you have 145 directories, but neglected to explain how the code is expected to visit them. Do you have a list to feed the script, either via a pipe or command line arguments? Or are they all in a hierarchy which can be simply traveresed with find from a single root location? I will assume the later and the following script can take a single argument, the location of this starting directory. If absent, the current working directory is assumed.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
find "${1:-.}" -type d -exec sh -c '
for d; do
out=$d/ALL-TEXT-FILES.txt
for f in "$d"/*.txt; do
{ [ -f "$f" ] && [ -r "$f" ]; } || continue
printf "//%s\n" "${f##*/}" >> "$out"
cat "$f" >> "$out"
done
done
' sh {} +
I tested it and it works as I intend.
However, there is a bug in this code (which is also present in some of the other suggestions). It's unlikely to be triggered, but it's lurking ... sleeping ... hoping.
In case anyone would prefer to find it themselves...
***** CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD *****
If a directory happens to contain a file whose name is identical to the output file, cat will enter an infinite loop of reading-writing to itself until the machine explodes. The non-lazy solution would be to use a unique tempfile (or at least a filename that is guaranteed to be outside the traversal).
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bomstrip
BOMSTRIP(1) BSD General Commands Manual BOMSTRIP(1)NAME
bomstrip, bomstrip-files -- strip the BOM sequence from UTF-8 files
SYNOPSIS
bomstrip
bomstrip-files file ...
DESCRIPTION
The bomstrip utility reads UTF-8 data from its standard input and copies it to its standard output, stripping the BOM (byte-order mark) from
the beginning of the text if it is present. There are no command-line options and no parameters.
The bomstrip-files utility removes the UTF-8 BOM from the specified files, saving each file's original contents with a .bom extension. It
uses the bomstrip utility, trying to execute it as ``bomstrip''; if the bomstrip utility is installed under another name, or if a more com-
plex command is desired, it may be supplied in the BOMSTRIP environment variable.
EXAMPLES
Strip the BOM, if present, from a text file:
bomstrip < bom.txt > nobom.txt
Strip the BOM, if present, from all text files, backing them up with a .bom extension:
bomstrip-files *.txt
Use the OCAML implementation of bomstrip:
env BOMSTRIP='ocaml bomstrip.ocaml' bomstrip-files *.txt
SEE ALSO
The bomstrip home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/
HISTORY
The bomstrip utility (in many languages) was written by Mechiel Lukkien, with implementations in various languages sent to him by others,
including Andreas Gohr, Andrew Gerrand, Berteun Damman, Matthijs Bomhoff, Peter Pentchev, and Ruben Smelik. The bomstrip-files utility and
this manual page were written by Peter Pentchev in the hope that they reflect the behavior of all the bomstrip implementations in all lan-
guages.
AUTHORS
Mechiel Lukkien <mechiel@xs4all.nl>
Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
BSD June 14, 2008 BSD
04-28-2011
