[SOLVED] recursively listing files' first lines

atjurhs · 03-28-2017, 01:45 PM

hey guys,

i have a directory tree structure with files that looks like this

Code:

/home/sub1/
/home/sub1/dog.csv
/home/sub1/colors.csv
/home/sub1/sub2/
/home/sub1/sub2/sub3/
/home/sub1/sub2/sub3/cars.csv

inside each of the csv files there is a header field separated by csv

for example: dog.csv would have as its header fields

Code:

dog1, dog2, dog3

and for colors.csv would have as its header fields

Code:

red, white, blue

and for car.csv would have as its header fields

Code:

Ford, Chevy, Dodge

when i use

Code:

find * -exec cat {}/;

or

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find * print0 | xargs -0 cat

i get a listing, but it's a mess and not easily readable!

I would like the output something more human readable, maybe something like this, but I'm open to other human readable results.

Code:

/sub1/dog.csv
    dog1, dog2, dog3
/sub1/colors.csv
    red, white, blue
/sub2/
/sub3/cars.csv
    Ford, Chevy, Dodge

note: my system does not have tree as a command.
I'm guessing that it will take some sort of an awk script

thanks for whatever help you might give!

Todd

atjurhs · 03-28-2017, 02:37 PM

ended up using python

MensaWater · 03-28-2017, 02:41 PM

Can you share your code so someone in future with similar question can find it?