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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Recursive Cat? Post 302694883 by Corona688 on Friday 31st of August 2012 01:35:31 PM
Old 08-31-2012
If it prints no lines, then the files don't have more than 10 lines. You can give it -q to tell it to omit the file names.

Automate what? It's already selecting everything under folder/whatever/whatever.csv, what other folders do you want? You seemed to imply they were all at the same depth, folder/folder2/file.csv. If they're not, you need to use find and use its output to feed the tail command. xargs can turn a list of files on stdout into a list of arguments, as long as the filenames and folder names contain no spaces.

Code:
find /path/to/folderholdinghundredsoffolders/ -name '*.csv' | xargs tail -q -n +11 > output


Last edited by Corona688; 08-31-2012 at 02:41 PM..
 

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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gnomevfs-cat is obsolete. It has been superseded by gvfs-cat. See gvfs-cat(1). 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 |Obsolete Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1), gvfs-cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.11 14 May 2008 gnomevfs-cat(1)
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