I have a bunch of folders which are labelled in this way:
conf1
conf2
...
But the order in the home directory is like
conf1
conf10
conf100
conf101
...
conf2
conf20
conf200
conf201
...
Because each folder contains a file named "distance.txt", I would like to be able to print the content of the distance.txt file, from each single folder, but in order, going from folder 1–>2–>3… to the final folder 272.
I tried several attempts, but every time the final file contains the all set of values in the wrong order; this is the piece of code I set:
ls -v | for d in ./*/;
do (cd "$d" && cat distance.txt >> /path/to/folder/d.txt
);
done
As you can see I tried to "order" the folders with the command
ls -v
and then to couple the cycle to iteratively save each file.
Can you kindly help me?
Best Answer
For such a relatively small set of folders you could use a numerical loop