Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/27/04:42:09
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:42:58AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:55:34AM -0500, c wrote:
> > > Just started to get somewhere until i wanted to cat a heap of csv files and
> > > then send the unique records to a new file.
> > > I thought it couldnt be to hard but now my brain hurts.
> > > Can anyone help me with a line of code that will do the command below
> > > '$ cat d:/pc1/filename.csv |uniq > d:/pc1/newfilename.csv'
> > > but i want it do it repeatidly for every .csv file in that directory?
> > This has nothing to do with Cygwin, but hey..
> >
> > for i in /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv; do
> > cat $i | uniq > /cygdrive/d/pc1/newfilename.csv
> > done
>
> Umm, surely you meant
> cat /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv | sort | uniq > /cygdrive/d/pc1/newfilename.csv
> right?
Ehm, no, not that one..
> Or, at the very least,
>
> for i in /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv; do
> cat $i | uniq >> /cygdrive/d/pc1/newfilename.csv
> done
Type-o for the missing '>' - thanks for the vigilance :)
> The goals of the OP weren't very clearly stated, so he might have wanted
> to do
>
> for i in /cygdrive/d/pc1/*.csv; do
> cat $i | uniq > /cygdrive/d/pc1/new$i.csv
> done
>
> instead.
Tha ambiguity (and the fact that this has nothing to do with Cygwin) was why
I told him to take a look at the advanced Bash scripting guide - it's very
informative and doesn't require you to be "advanced" before you start at the
"Bash scripting" :)
rlc
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