Question

If I do

*.c

it will return a list of files ending with .c, separated by a space. However, I’d like it to instead return a list of files, prefixed with #include " and postfixed with "\n.

e.g. output

#include "blah.c"
#include "meh.c"
#include "hehe.c"

I want to pipe the results of this into gcc -xc - so bonus points if the command is a one-liner.

(And no, I don’t want to just cat *.c because it’ll lose source-location information)

Answer 1

There’s a simpler way:

printf '#include "%s"\n' *.c