Re: basic Problems

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:08:14PM +0200, Nik Engel wrote:
> i want to select a numer of files and cat the content of a file to all
> selected. 
> I try this by: 
> find  -name "db.[^0-9^root^local^netrt]*" -print | cat tmp/db.netrt.de
> $1
> or
> find  -name "db.[^0-9^root^local^netrt]*" -print | xargs cat tmp/db.netrt.de
> $1

You can't use $1 that way. Use the second of your two commands and drop
the $1. Even that probably isn't quite what you want, I think.

If you're trying to append tmp/db.netrt.de to all the files you find,
try this instead:

  for x in `find -name "db.[^0-9^root^local^netrt]*" -print`; do cat tmp/db.netrt.de >> $x; done

There are variants of this with xargs too (involving the -i option), but
they're more obscure.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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