[FIXED] How can I cut off tail of each line in the text file in all subfolders with shell script?

Issue

I have this project,

Parent
  |-ChildA
  |-ChildB
  |- ....
  |-ChildZ

and each child directory contains requirements.txt that has python package information like this,

packageA==0.1
packageB==5.9.3
...
packageZ==2.9.18.23

I want to cut off all version information so that output file will be,

packageA
packageB
...
packageZ

I am trying,

cat requirements.txt | grep "==" | cut -d "=" -f 1

but it does not iterate all subdirectories and does not save. How can I make it? Thanks!
*I am using ubuntu20.04

Solution

In order to Execute the command on all the requirements.txt files, you'll need to iterate through all the Child directories, You can do so using this simple script:

#!/bin/sh

for child in ./Child* ; do
        cat "$child/requirements.txt" | grep "==" | cut -d "=" -f 1
done

Now if you wish to "save" the new version of each file, you can just redirect each command output to the file using the > operator. Using this operator will overwrite your file, so I suggest you redirect the output to a new file.

Heres the script with the redirected output:

#!/bin/sh

for child in ./Child* ; do
        cat "$child/requirements.txt" | grep "==" | cut -d "=" -f 1 > $child/cut-requirements.txt
done

Answered By - Pietro Pezzi

Answer Checked By - Willingham (PHPFixing Volunteer)