Recursive cat all the files into single file

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frazman picture frazman · Jun 5, 2014 · Viewed 80.8k times · Source

I have bunch of files sitting in folders like

data\A\A\A\json1.json
data\A\A\A\json2.json
data\A\A\B\json1.json
...
data\Z\Z\Z\json_x.json

I want to cat all the jsons into one single file?

Answer

Pavel picture Pavel · Jun 5, 2014 
find data/ -name '*.json' -exec cat {} \; > uber.json

a short explanation:

find <where> \
  -name <file_name_pattern> \
  -exec <run_cmd_on_every_hit> {} \; \
    > <where_to_store>

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