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whocares357

10-22-2010 05:23 PM

[Shell]Printing Content to File

I have this command (line):

Code:

tail -52 | find "/path/" -name "*.csv"

Instead of printing the contents of each file, the command prints the location of each file.
What am I doing wrong?

GrapefruiTgirl

10-22-2010 06:15 PM

Hi, welcome to LQ!

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

How about something like:

Code:

echo > some_new_file



for file in $(find /search/path/ -type f -name "*\.csv"); do

    head -n 5 "$file" >> some_new_file

done

That prints the first 5 lines of all the files, into a new file. If this isn't what you're looking for, adjust the `head` command, or please explain some more.

:)

GrapefruiTgirl

10-22-2010 06:26 PM

Plus, if all your files are in one single directory, this will work for the same goal as above:

Code:

head -n 5 *.csv >> somefile

crts	10-22-2010 06:32 PM

How about

Code:

find "/path/" -name "*.csv" -exec tail -52 '{}' \;

whocares357

10-22-2010 11:10 PM

Thanks guys! I used the one crts gave me, but all of them are great.

grail

10-23-2010 12:43 AM

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