to be more specific ,I want to display contents of files from output of find command,I tried the following commands but they don't get my work done
cat < find . -name "*.txt"find . -name "*.txt" | cat
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2 Answers
Either
find . -name "*.txt" | xargs cat --
or (better, if you have GNU find)
find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 cat --
or
find . -name "*.txt" -exec cat -- {} +
answered Nov 24, 2017 at 3:35
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It might make sense to use
cat --to prevent unwanted file option matches. Commented Nov 24, 2017 at 9:34 -
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@RaphaelAhrens - how could that happen when all file names returned by
findstart with.? Commented Nov 24, 2017 at 13:47 -
@Videonauth (and whoever upvoted your comment) - that will fail if filenames contain any IFS chars - see the answers here - newlines in file names exist only in theory but spaces are pretty common in real life... Commented Nov 24, 2017 at 13:51
You can use below the below command to display contents of files
Method 1:
find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -exec cat {} \;
Method 2:
ls -ltr *.txt | awk '{print "cat" " " $9}' | sh
answered Nov 24, 2017 at 7:10
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1The second method has some issues. First
lsbehaves very differently on different OSs. Second building shell scripts on the run is a little bit of over doing it. Commented Nov 24, 2017 at 9:37