Recursively cat all the files into single file

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Linux Problem Overview

I have bunch of files sitting in folders like

data\A\A\A\json1.json
data\A\A\A\json2.json
data\A\A\B\json1.json
...
data\Z\Z\Z\json_x.json

I want to cat all the jsons into one single file?

Linux Solutions

Solution 1 - Linux

find data/ -name '*.json' -exec cat {} \; > uber.json

a short explanation:

find <where> \
  -name <file_name_pattern> \
  -exec <run_cmd_on_every_hit> {} \; \
    > <where_to_store>

Solution 2 - Linux

Use find to get all the JSON files and concatenate them.

find data -name '*.json' -exec cat {} + > all.json

Note that this will not be valid JSON. If you want a JSON file to contain multiple objects, they need to be in a containing array or object, so you'd need to add [ ] around them and put , between each one.

Solution 3 - Linux

Alternatively -- if you have a list of your files -- you can pipe that to xargs

<path to your files> | xargs cat > all.json

Solution 4 - Linux

find ./ -type f | xargs cat > ../singlefilename

I would like this ,easy and simple.

../ avoid the error input file is output file.

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