#!/bin/bash buoy_number="42002" input_file="${buoy_number}_XXXX.txt" output_file="csv/${buoy_number}_XXXX.csv" for value in {1980..2022} do sed -e 's/\s\+/,/g' ${input_file/XXXX/$value} > ${output_file/XXXX/$value} #echo "${url//XXXX/"$value"}" #line=$(head -n 1 ${input_file/XXXX/$value}) #line_count=$(wc -l ${input_file/XXXX/$value}) #echo "$value $line_count $line" echo "done" done # Now do 2023 - just grab all teh files in 2023 and convert them into the interior CSV directory for FILE in 2023/*.txt; do filename=${FILE%.*} new_filename=2023/csv/${filename#*/}.csv # remove whitespace on the end sed 's/ *$//' file # change all spaces to commas, repeating spaces only get 1 comma sed -e 's/\s\+/,/g' ${FILE} > ${new_filename} done