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Old 10-28-2013
Tools Find and cat top lines recursively
I have a folder structure with multiple sub directories
Code:
MAIN
  FOLDER1
    SUBFOLDER1
      files......
  FOLDER2
    SUBFOLDER1
      files......
etc

and I want to find a way to create an output of every files first 20 lines. I've been searching and testing and failing. I can do it in a directory but not a sub-directory

Any help would be great! Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-28-2013
Try:
Code:
find /MAIN -type f -print -exec head -20 {} \;

# 3  
Old 10-28-2013
AWESOME!
bartus11 - that worked perfectly!
Thank you so much for the fast reply!!!
 
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