to be more specific ,I want to display contents of files from output of find command,I tried the following commands but they don't get my work done
cat < find . -name "*.txt"find . -name "*.txt" | cat
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find . -name "*.txt" | xargs cat --
or (better, if you have GNU find)
find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 cat --
or
find . -name "*.txt" -exec cat -- {} +
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1+1; or `cat $(find ...)` – Videonauth Nov 24 '17 at 04:07
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It might make sense to use `cat --` to prevent unwanted file option matches. – Raphael Ahrens Nov 24 '17 at 09:34
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@RaphaelAhrens thanks, good point - will edit – steeldriver Nov 24 '17 at 13:12
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@RaphaelAhrens - how could that happen when all file names returned by `find` start with `.` ? – don_crissti Nov 24 '17 at 13:47
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@Videonauth (and whoever upvoted your comment) - that will fail if filenames contain any IFS chars - [see the answers here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/321697/22142) - newlines in file names exist only in theory but spaces are pretty common in real life... – don_crissti Nov 24 '17 at 13:51
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@don_crissti fair point. But since the answer uses also `xargs` your second comment to @Videonauth applies. – Raphael Ahrens Nov 24 '17 at 16:15
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You can use below the below command to display contents of files
Method 1:
find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -exec cat {} \;
Method 2:
ls -ltr *.txt | awk '{print "cat" " " $9}' | sh
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1The second method has some issues. First `ls` behaves very differently on different OSs. Second building shell scripts on the run is a little bit of over doing it. – Raphael Ahrens Nov 24 '17 at 09:37