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Thank you all for ur efforts, unfortunately none of the suggested solutions has worked for me.
I managed to get the file name, the question is how to inser the file name before the concatenation...

Thank you for your response.
I think i didnt explain what i need clearly,
I have 145 directories each one has many files,
for example one of the directories is
ClassA that has grade.txt...

i think i should specify the path in the system because i want to merge each directory with all .txt files in it in a separate file.
meaning
Directory A: has many files, i want to merge all .txt...

I've written the script below to merge only .txt files that exist in one directory into one huge .txt file and ignore other files with other extensions.
now the result is one huge .txt file with all...

I've tried the script below

sed 's/;/;\\n/' testing.txt > testing2.txt


but that didn't work, the new line wasn't added after each ; in the output file (testing2.txt)

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Hi:

I'm trying to write a script that reformats a given document (edit the content of a given document) , I want to add a new line \n after each ; in the document.

Regards

what's the command to find the creation date of a certain dirctory?

I was mistaken, the cose below was the only thing that worked for me, but when i added

\( -name "*.txt" -a ! -name "*/en/*" \)
it didnt work
and i got this error

find: paths must precede...

This is the only script that worked for me, in fact i want to do a further refinment to this code if it's possible, i would like to leave any *en*.txt files inside the DOC DOCS directories, i dont...

Nope, that didn't work since the DOC DOCS exist on so many subdirectories.
this is what i came up with

find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
find $i -type f -name '*.txt'
echo $i
done
...

I am running Ubuntu 10.4

The code i executed is
find . -type f -name '*.txt' -exec ls -l {} \ ;
the code is running now but it's giving me all the .txt files in all subdirectories but i am...

thank u for ur response
am getting this error now: missing argument to `-exec'

hi:

I'm trying to write a shell script that recognizes all .txt files in all the subdirectories in my current directory.
Let's say that i have a directory called Applications which consists of...