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From: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Append newline to many files
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:11:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <807cfc5a-78e0-d74f-160c-f68d2c463997@rayninfo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMryQFVz4kckKqVtT=L-nXFrY_i7X-67RywLPYF7XDF-Hw@mail.gmail.com>


On 25/09/2022 14:30, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 3:21 PM Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Assume there are thousands of text files that are not terminated
>> with a newline.  I want to concatenate them all, but add the
>> missing newline between files.
>>
>> This works but takes ten times as much time as "cat foo.*".
>>
>>    for i in foo.*; do cat "$i"; echo; done > out
>>
>> I can't really think of a fast yet simple solution.
> This should work:
>
>      print >lf
>      files=(foo.*)
>      lf=(lf)
>      cat -- ${files:^^lf}
>      rm lf
>
> Roman.
>
This looks interesting but any chance of an explanation of how it works 
for us lesser mortals please?

zzapper



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-25 13:19 Dominik Vogt
2022-09-25 13:30 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-09-26  8:11   ` zzapper [this message]
2022-09-26  8:51     ` Dominik Vogt
2022-09-26 19:39       ` Mikael Magnusson

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