wildcard usage in find in the input and output assistance needed

helpneededquick · 03-02-2018, 03:54 PM

I have a list of files (see below) I need to merge into separate files (merge1,merge2). merge1 would contain file1a_1 and file1a_2 merge2 would contain file2a_1, file2a_2

i.e. Files file1a_1 X1a_2 file1a_3 file1b_1 file1b_2 file1b_3

I tried find . -name "file_ -exec cat{} \; >> mergefile*
The shell script puts all the files into merge file and doesn't separate them out individually.

Any assistance would be appreciated

keefaz · 03-02-2018, 05:04 PM

It's easy with a loop and a counter, I can't think of an onliner solution with find

Are the files in same directory (not in subdirectories)?

helpneededquick · 03-02-2018, 05:24 PM

Thanks everyone

astrogeek · 03-02-2018, 06:01 PM

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