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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add filenames to top of each files in a directory Post 302997712 by Corona688 on Thursday 18th of May 2017 11:55:32 AM
Old 05-18-2017
for FILE in `ls *` is a dangerous use of backticks and pointless besides, don't do that. * does not need ls or any other external command's help to work.

You can do this with a subshell, which first prints the file name, then reads out the file contents, with the entire subshell's output dumped into "$FILE".txt

Code:
for FILE in *
do
        ( echo "$FILE" ; cat "$FILE" ) < "$FILE" > "$FILE".txt
done

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