Assignment

Your first assignment is to finsh the following bash script. The beginning of the script will create 10 files named out1 .. out10. You must add a few lines below to concatenate all 10 files into a new file named alldates.txt

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#!/bin/bash for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do date > out$i done ## you code below here ##

Details

The statement:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6

will cause $i to take on the values in the sequence specified. In this case, $i will be set to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

do
      date > out$i
done
The do loop above is then processed once for each value of $i.

The ">" symbol sends the output from the command date to the output file specified.

Tips

• Use another loop like the one on the top of the script.
• ">>" will append output to a file.
• cat

A solution

#!/bin/bash for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do date > out$i done for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do cat out$i >> alldates.txt done