I have use case where I need to check if a file exists. But the catch is, there are diffrent file that needs to checked for and each file will have its own method. I tried the above code snippet, the debug logs this test -e && echo file exists || echo file not found. String variable fileToCheck is not
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Merge many csv files with similar names [closed]
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How do I sort a list of files and concatenate the contents in bash?
This works: But when I try to sort the the filenames, remove the newline the list of filenames that are piped to cat look identical to the previous but sorted: However cat returns this error: Answer Your xargs statement is expecting null terminated entries. If your filenames or directories have spaces, then y…
sed command string variable concatenation within single quotes
I want to modify the include_path directive in my php.ini file using sed. Below, I’ve got a command that looks for a string and places the directive on a line after the match. However, I cannot get it to work while still maintaining the double quotes within the ${install_path} variable. The double quote…
concatenate ordered files using cat on Linux
I have files from 1 to n, which look like the following: Each file contains only one line. Now I want to concatenate them in the order from 1 to n. I tried cat sim.o500.* > out.dat. Sadly this does not work if e.g. n is larger than 9, because this concatenates then sim.o500.1 followed by sim.o500.10and not…