RE: newby stupid question - cat mutiple files to new piped output files

["Erik Cumps" <erik dot cumps at icos dot be>]

How about:

--- 8< cut here ---
#!/bin/bash
pushd /cygdrive/d/pc1
for file in *.csv; do
        if [ "${file##new_}" != "${file}" ]; then next; fi
        cat "${file}" | uniq > "new_${file}"
done
popd
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I Guess bas is like perl: TIMTOWTDI ;)


> Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:53 PM:
>
> for i in /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv; do
> cat $i | uniq > /cygdrive/d/pc1/newfilename.csv
> done
> 
> This will work once, because the new files won't be there
> yet. After that, the *.csv will pick up the new files as well..

Apart from that, you will overwrite the new file each time ;-)

$ for i in /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv; do cat $i | uniq > 
/cygdrive/d/pc1/$1.new; done

Now you avoid that your new files are picked also and all new files have 
new names (a .new appended).

Other approaches to do something like that:
find /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv -exec uniq \{} \{}.new \;

refer the manuals ...

:)


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