[ale] help with a tiny shell script - correction

[Jay Loden]

aaaaaah ok, got it now :)

thanks for the help, it worked great. 

-Jay


On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:58 am, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Correction:  the for line should read:
> for i in `\ls *.csv`; do cat $i >> append.csv; echo -e "\n" >>
> append.csv; done
> (for i in backtick backslash ls start dot csv backtick semicolon ...)
>
> Also, it should be noted that this will concatenate the output of EVERY
> .csv file in that directory.  If you have .csv files you don't want
> appended to "append.csv" you need to make adjustments accordingly.
>
> Kind regards,
> CB
>
> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Jay, try this:
> >
> > rm append.csv
> > echo > append.csv
> > for i in `cat *.csv`; do cat $i >> append.csv; echo -e "\n" >>
> > append.csv; done
> >
> > Basically what this will do is:
> > a) remove any existing append.csv file that you have (I'm assuming
> > that's what you want)
> > b) create an empty file called append.csv (optional step; just added
> > for robustness)
> > c) for each .csv file, cat it into append.cvs and then echo a newline
> > after it
> >
> > I've just started learning AWK and I have a feeling that it might be
> > better suited for this, but you asked how to do it in bash.
> >
> > I'd be interested to know how others would do this though -
> > particularly because sed has some nasty quirks when it comes to newlines.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > CB
> >
> > jay wrote:
> >> 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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