Recursive cat with file names

Question

I'd like to cat recursively several files with same name to another file. There's an earlier question "Recursive cat all the files into single file" which helped me to get started. However I'd like to achieve the same so that each file is preceded by the filename and path, different files preferably separated with a blank line or ----- or something like that. So the resulting file would read:

files/pipo1/foo.txt
flim 
flam 
floo

files/pipo2/foo.txt
plim
plam
ploo

Any way to achieve this in bash?

I've heard of the cat that ate the canary, but I'm having trouble picturing a recursive cat. ;) — Hot Licks, Dec 20 '14 at 18:30

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '14 at 18:38

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Of course! Instead of just cating the file, you just chain actions to print the filename, cat the file, then add a line feed:

find . -name 'foo.txt' \
  -print \
  -exec cat {} \; \
  -printf "\n"

answered Dec 20 '14 at 18:38

that other guy

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Note that `-printf` is not POSIX. If a POSIX solution is needed, you'll have to replace by `-exec echo \;` or something similar. – gniourf_gniourf Dec 20 '14 at 18:41
Thank you very much for both you fine gentlepersons, works like a charm :-) @Hot Licks - LOL :D – Peregrino69 Dec 20 '14 at 18:48
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`find . -name 'foo.txt' -print -exec cat {} \; -exec echo \;` – flywire Nov 13 '18 at 11:50

Recursive cat with file names

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