Re: need help with a bash script

["Adrian C." <office@snobu.org>]

Fabio Zyserman wrote:
> What I want to do is to create a new file, with one line from each of the
> data files (say, line beginning with 0.01e00), adding to each line in
> the new file the number appearing in the name of the corresponding data
> file.
> That is, the new file will contain one more column than the original
> ones; the new
> file would be
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.2
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.3
> 0.01e00 .... .... .... 1.4

rm -f newfile
for i in `ls data-*`
do
ls $i
printf `cat "$i" | grep -i "0.01e00"`  >> newfile
printf ".........." >> newfile
printf `basename $i | cut -d = -f 3` >> newfile
printf "\n" >> newfile
done


well.. you get the idea.

--Adrian.