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sebastianwagner/concat_csv_files.sh

Created June 26, 2013 09:41
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Concatenate CSV files by taking heading first line of first file and appending all non-first-lines of remaining files.
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concat_csv_files.sh
#!/bin/sh
OUTFILE='outfile.csv'
#get header from first line of first file
head -n 1 result*_01_*.csv > "$OUTFILE"
#collect bodies for concatenation and append
tail --silent --lines=+2 result*_*_*.csv >> "$OUTFILE"
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