Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:21:42 +0200 From: Buki <dev@null.cz> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting question... Message-ID: <20020409082142.B14238@veverka.sh.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020408211858.GA25469@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:18:58AM %2B0300 References: <B8D75512.BD50%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> <20020408211858.GA25469@hades.hell.gr>
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:18:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2002-04-08 14:09, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
> > Can someone point me in the right direction here....?
> >
> > I have a set of directories that contain radius log files from the last
> > month. Each log file is named the same thing but the directories they
> > reside in are date stamped. I want to write a script that searches the
> > directories, finds files named ?detail?, and cats the detail files into one
> > large combined file. I know this should be simple, but I am drawing
> > blanks....
>
> $ cd /var/log/radius
> $ cat */detail > /tmp/foo
>
> For deeper nestings, you can probably get away with */*/detail, but
> it's safer to use find/xargs:
>
> $ ( find . -name detail -type f | xargs cat ) > /tmp/foo
as the result should be one large file, I'd probable replace > with >>
Buki
>
> Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
> keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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