read output and store in file

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-07-11, b83503104 at yahoo.com <b83503104 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm a beginner, and what I want to accomplish is this:
>
> 1. For all files under several folders, do some processing (using an
> existing program).  The program will output one line of text for each
> file.
>
> 2. Store the output of all files in one file.
>
> It would be great if someone can give me a crash start on accomplishing
> this.  If you think there is a definitely better tool than Python for
> doing this, please tell me so.  I just heard that Python or Perl are
> better in these kind of jobs.

Using bash and find:

(find path1 path2 path3 -type f -exec existingProgram {} \;) >outputFile

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