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Bash script for finding and merging all text files under a directory and its all subdirectories by grouping their parent directory names
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| outputLocation="/myDrive/myWorkingDirectory" && | |
| cd "$outputLocation" && | |
| for dir in $(find -type d) | |
| do | |
| cat "$dir"/*.txt >> "$outputLocation"/${dir##*/}.txt | |
| done | |
| ############################################################ | |
| # for a folder structure like this # | |
| # myRootDirectory # | |
| # |mySubDirectory1 # | |
| # |part0001.txt # | |
| # |part0002.txt # | |
| # |mySubDirectory2 # | |
| # |part0001.txt # | |
| # |part0002.txt # | |
| ############################################################ | |
| # here is the example script for # | |
| # merging all files starting with 'part' # | |
| # and grouping them into output files # | |
| # # | |
| # myLocation="/d/Users/myUser/SparkDataResults" && # | |
| # cd "$myLocation" && # | |
| # for dir in $(find -type d) # | |
| # do # | |
| # cat "$dir"/part* >> "$myLocation"/${dir##*/}.txt # | |
| # done # | |
| ############################################################ | |
| # here is the output files containing the merged content # | |
| # of relevant files under the root directory # | |
| # myRootDirectory # | |
| # |mySubDirectory1.txt # | |
| # |mySubDirectory2.txt # | |
| # |mySubDirectory1 # | |
| # |part0001.txt # | |
| # |part0002.txt # | |
| # |mySubDirectory2 # | |
| # |part0001.txt # | |
| # |part0002.txt # | |
| ############################################################ |
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