[lug] Appending a file to files

[Atkinson, Chip]

Jeez.  You're right.  Ok, here's what I often do for this very reason:

tar cvf bar.sav bar

:-)

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Murray [mailto:gmurray at Mines.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:41 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Appending a file to files
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ken Weinert wrote:
> > * Atkinson, Chip (CAtkinson at Circadence.com) [010116 17:20]:
> > > Ok.  Try this:
> > > 
> > > for i in $(ls bar); do
> > >   cat foo >> $i
> > > done
> > 
> > Or, combine the two - it really depends on whether bar contains
> > subdirectories, whether you want to recurse them, etc:
> > 
> > for file in $(find bar -type f); do
> >   cat foo >> $file
> > done
> 
> The first script above put the concatenated files into 
> the home directory---not into bar/.  However, the
> second script did the trick.
> 
> Thanks, Ken.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> P.S.  My apologies for all the double postings.  For
> some reason posting from my Linux partition was
> happening much more slowly than from my Windows
> partition, even though I'm using pine in both
> and going through the same campus server.
> 
> 
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