Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I have this code which has two problems:

Code:

find . -name '*.fil' | xargs while read page
do
cat $page | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' $page>$page.txt
done

find . -name '*.fil.txt' | xargs rename '.fil.txt' .fil

1. I am running this code in a directory consisting of large number of files. The code gives me error in do loop. I think I have not used xargs very well here. The error is something like:

Code:

syntax error near unexpected token 'do'

2. At the end of the code you can see I have another find command to rename the files from .fil.txt to .fil again. Is there any way to get rid of renaming in the last line so that I can get .fil files directly from the third line of my code?

Code:

cat $page | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' $page>$page.txt

The problem is in very large set of files, this renaming takes a lot of time. I am using Linux with BASH

Try this...

Code:

find . -name "*.fil" | while read line
do 
  awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' $line > $line.txt; 
  mv $line.txt $line 
done

--ahamed