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Old 04-30-2010
find and head -1
i have lots of files in /law/prod and /law/dev, such as AP20PD, AP20WS, AP20.scr, AP20.rpt

if i am in /law DIR

Code:
find . -name AP20PD, found in /law/prod and /law/dev

i want to head -1 AP20PD from both location and >> /tmp/test.log


can i use find and head in one line ?

---------- Post updated at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:57 AM ----------

never mine. find . -name filename > /tmp/test.log and then i use while loop to head -1 does the trick for me. thank you anyway.
Last edited by zaxxon; 04-30-2010 at 10:25 AM.. Reason: use code tags please, ty
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Old 04-30-2010
Or you can use the following:

Code:
find . -name AP20PD -type f -exec head -1 {} \; >> /tmp/test.log

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