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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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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-2-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
	      Recurse into subdirectories.

       -v --verbose
	      Be verbose.

       -h --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -V --version
	      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>.

								   16 April 2012							 FC-CAT(1)