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Old 10-21-2009
Find, copy, and append into one file
Hi, I am trying to do something relatively easy, but am having some trouble getting it to work.

I have multiple files called "distances.log" in numerous subdirectories and sub-subdirectories within a directory. I would like the contents of each of these "distances.log" files to be appended to a single, new file called "distances_summary.log".

I know there are numerous ways to do this, but

Of the numerous things I tried, I tried:

find ./ -name "*distance.log" > distances_summary.log

and various modifications of it (trying not to print the path, but the contents of each). I think there's a much easier solution that I am not aware of. I know this is really silly - maybe I just need to take a break...

Thanks
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Old 10-22-2009
Code:
find -iname "*distance.log" -exec cat {} >> distance_summary.log \;

  • find the files,
  • cat those files into required file.
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Old 10-22-2009
Great, thanks! I knew I should use "cat"...
 
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