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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find | xargs cat Post 66496 by asal_email on Tuesday 15th of March 2005 02:40:48 AM
Old 03-15-2005
find | xargs cat
Hai I just want to find a file *.txt in particular direcotry and display the file name puls the content. Do someone know hot to do this, thanks.

I try :
find test/ -name '*.txt' | xargs cat

but It does'nt print out the file name, i want something below print out in my screen :

test/1.txt
this is content of 1.txt
test/2.txt
this is content of 2.txt
... so on

instead of :

this is content of 1.txt
this is content of 2.txt
... so on, which is what my previous script does.

Thanks for your help
 

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Name
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Synopsis
	   use Text::WordDiff;

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