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01-23-2017

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Difficulty with CAT redirection in script

I have not been able to append the contents of many files into one file. I have executed the CAT command shown below separately substituting an actual path and file name for the array variable to verify that I have the syntax correct. The bottom line - nothing is happening with CAT. I am running the script with sudo. Please excuse all the debug statements - just verifying that the variables contain valid values. I am running this on Ubuntu 14.04.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo ""
echo "==============================================================================="
echo "This script copies all of the LocalConfig.pri files contents into another file."
echo "==============================================================================="
echo ""
cd /
echo "Changed directory to ..."
pwd

# Assign 'locate' results to a variable.
output=$(locate -b "LocalConfig.pri")

# Parse the $output variable into an array. Each line is a full path.
while read -r line; do outputArray+=("$line"); done <<<"$output"

# Loop through the array.
for idx in "${!outputArray[@]}"; do
    # Print array element index and contents.
    printf ' Output number %d is %s' "$idx" "${outputArray[idx]}"
    printf '\n'
    # Cat each file into one 'master' file.
    echo -e "\tconcatenating\n\t\t ${outputArray[idx]} \n\tinto \n\t\t./LocalConfigMaster.pri ..."
    cat "${outputArray[idx]}" >> ./LocalConfigMaster.pri
done

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