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# 8  
Old 01-08-2008
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Originally Posted by zdn3023
Hi,
I am trying to organize my data files and I would like to know how to cat files with path. Note that the correct command may not be "cat" though.
For example, I have:
abc/data/1/title
dca/data/2/title
gpd/data/1/title
....

I'd like to have a file listing the title info from different directories, as well as directory paths.

Thanks

Simon
Code:
find /path/to/files -type f -name "title" -exec nawk 'FNR==1{print FILENAME":"$0}' {} \;

# 9  
Old 01-08-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiling Dragon
Not sure what you mean... Does the code not work? What error do you get?
I typed:
echo ${find */pdata/* -type f -name "title"}:`head -1 $file`
And the computer showed Variable syntax.
I have to say that I only know basic operations of Unix system.

Thanks,
# 10  
Old 01-09-2008
Thank you, gus2000
Your code:
find . -name "title" -type f -exec grep . {} /dev/null \;

works!
Thanks for you all who try to help.

Simon
# 11  
Old 01-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by zdn3023
I typed:
echo ${find */pdata/* -type f -name "title"}:`head -1 $file`
And the computer showed Variable syntax.
I have to say that I only know basic operations of Unix system
That code snippet doesn't look valid to me, where did you get it from?
 
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