Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:42:50 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to ensure one blank line on top of ASCII files? Message-ID: <43F070BA.1000205@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060213094752.021a8eb0@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060213094752.021a8eb0@broadpark.no>
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Kristian Vaaf wrote: > > Hello! > > I need to make sure all my ASCII files start with one blank line. > > I just need to know what command to use, > I've written the rest of the script to do this for me: > > -- > echo "" > MY_BLANK_LINE.txt > for file in `find -s . -type f -not -name ".*"`; do > > if file -b "$file" | grep -q 'text'; then > mv $file $file.tmp cat MY_BLANK_LINE.txt $file.tmp >> $file rm -f $file.tmp > echo "$file: Done" > > fi > > done rm -f MY_BLANK_LINE.txt There possibly are far more elegant solutions...but that should work.
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