Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:04:26 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Buki <dev@null.cz> Cc: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting question... Message-ID: <20020409150426.GB64641@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020409082142.B14238@veverka.sh.cvut.cz> References: <B8D75512.BD50%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> <20020408211858.GA25469@hades.hell.gr> <20020409082142.B14238@veverka.sh.cvut.cz>
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On 2002-04-09 08:21, Buki wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:18:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2002-04-08 14:09, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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 >>
That's why I used parentheses to group the commands :)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
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