How to view text files in a directory and in all its subdirectories, as well as subdirectories of directories (and so on, until all the folders run out).

Closed due to the fact that off-topic participants aleksandr barakin , Enikeyschik , LFC , freim , 0xdb Feb 23 at 16:49 .

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    1. What exactly do you mean by “text files”? 2. What exactly do you mean by the word "view"? 3. How do you present simultaneous “viewing” of several files? - aleksandr barakin pm
  • By viewing, I mean the most common "cat". - Kirill Syroezhkin
  • I just need to go through all the files using the cat command in the directory and in all its subdirectories. I do not understand how to do this of infinite depth - Kirill Syroezhkin
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    $ man find , optional $ man xargs - aleksandr barakin
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    Description in 3 words - recursive file browsing - Hellseher

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 find {Your_Directory_No_Braces} -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs cat
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    For easy viewing in the console, I would suggest: find ... | xargs more | less find ... | xargs more | less find ... | xargs more | less ( more in this mode will make a header with each file name before it, and less will allow you to view the entire output, navigating through it with the ability to search for text) - avp
 find ./ -type f -exec cat {} \; find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat grep -r . ./ ls -R | xargs cat

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