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September 29, 2018 08:34
Bash script to copy first line from all the text files in the current folder and save it as results.txt
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # | |
| # Bash script to copy first line from all the text files | |
| # in the current folder and save it as results.txt | |
| # | |
| rm results.txt; ls *.txt | xargs -I {} head -1 {} >> results.txt | |
| echo "===== Results ====="; | |
| cat results.txt |