a helper to combine readme files for cs2201 (Vanderbilt)

cs2201-combineReadmes.sh

#!/bin/bash

# rename each student's readmefile to his/her score and save to a single directory
# depends on these tools: bash, file, grep, unzip, sed

#relative output file address 
output='readmes.txt'
echo '' > $output

for filename in *.*; do
	printf '\n====== Begin student readme =======\n'>> $output

	if file $filename | grep -iq word ; then
		unzip -p $filename word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<\/w:p>/\n/g; s/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]\n]\{1,\}//g' >> $output
	else
		cat $filename >> $output
	fi

	printf "\n\n..:: Score: $filename ::.." >> $output
	printf '\n====== End of student readme =======\n\n\n\n'>> $output

done

echo "combined file generated at $output"