[ale] help with a tiny shell script
jay
jloden at toughguy.net
Tue Nov 16 00:31:26 EST 2004
Here's the scoop...I have about 330 csv files that are results files from a
survey. I want to import them into a spreadsheet for graphing, but when
coding the survey in php, my partner and I didnt place a line break after
each results file finishes.
The result is 330 files like this:
2,0,0,1,1,3,1,10,2,0,2,1,1,0, * "short answer"
Each file is one line, with a set of comma deliminated numerical answers, then
one short answer question, separated by the star as you see above. What I
want to do is basically:
cat *.csv > append.csv
but I want to add a linebreak between each file. I can code this in python,
but that seems unnecessarily complicated, and I'm almost positive if I knew
how to utilize the shell better, I could do this in one command....can anyone
shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!
-Jay
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