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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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print_first_line
#!/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
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