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# 1  
Old 09-06-2007
cat /proc/ files
Hi,
I need to write a shell script that should lists only the files that starts with alphabet from the /proc dir and then I have to cat those files and redirect to a file.

But my below script is not working. It is reading the first file properly but not the subsequent files. Please throw a light on this for me:

Code:
for file in "`ls -l /proc/ | grep "^-" | awk '{ print $8 }' | grep "^[a-zA-Z]"`"
do   
   cat /proc/"$file" >> file.txt
done

# 2  
Old 09-06-2007
Perhaps this.

Code:
for file in `find /proc/* -prune -type f -name "[a-zA-Z]*"`
do
  name=${file##/proc/}
  cat "$file" > ${name}.txt 2> /dev/null
done

# 3  
Old 09-13-2007
Thanks a lot Vino.
Do we need to specify the "/*" after "/proc" ? Without that also "find" command works. Does it serve any precautionary step in the script? Please add your comments.
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