On 2005-07-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a beginner, and what I want to accomplish is this:
>
> 1. For all files under several folders, do some processing (using an
> existing program). The program will output one line of text for each
> file.
>
> 2. Store the output of all files in one file.
>
> It would be great if someone can give me a crash start on accomplishing
> this. If you think there is a definitely better tool than Python for
> doing this, please tell me so. I just heard that Python or Perl are
> better in these kind of jobs.
Using bash and find:
(find path1 path2 path3 -type f -exec existingProgram {} \;) >outputFile
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