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Recursive cat
TL;DR
The
catwillfindthem all.
Scavanging in an old virtual machine, and in particular inside the
~/bin directory I had at the time, I discovered a little utility that
might come useful in some vague future. I call it cat-r:
cat-r
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#!/bin/sh
find "$1" -type f | while read filename; do
printf '%s\n' "$filename"
sed 's/^/ | /' "$filename"
printf '\n'
doneYou provide a path (either a directory or a file, but it gives its best with a directory) and it finds all files in that subtree, then prints them out in a way that makes you actually see what stuff is where.