simplify merging

Author: simongravelle

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md

@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
   research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant
   agreement N°101065060$. 
 - Axel Kohlmeyer acknowledges financial support by Sandia National Laboratories
-  under POs 2149742 and 2407526.
+  under POs 2149742 and 2407526.
+  

AUTHORS.md

@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 
 - [Jacob R. Gissinger](https://www.stevens.edu/profile/jgissing), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
 - [Axel Kohlmeyer](https://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey), Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
+

COMMENT.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ This README.md file was assembled using the sed command from the files listed in
 "files.txt". See the script in "generateREADME.sh". To modify the content of 
 the  README.md, modify the files listed in
 "files.txt", or add a new file to the list in "files.txt".
--->
+-->

DESCRIPTION.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 The content of the profile/README.md appears on the GitHub profile of the
 [LAMMPS tutorials organization](https://github.com/lammpstutorials).
 This repository also contains the list of [authors](AUTHORS.md) from the
-LAMMPS tutorials initiative, as well as a list of [Acknowledgements](ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md).
+LAMMPS tutorials initiative, as well as a list of [Acknowledgements](ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md).

README.md

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@ the  README.md, modify the files listed in
 "files.txt", or add a new file to the list in "files.txt".
 -->
 
+
 # LAMMPS tutorials' special repository
 
 The content of the profile/README.md appears on the GitHub profile of the
 [LAMMPS tutorials organization](https://github.com/lammpstutorials).
 This repository also contains the list of [authors](AUTHORS.md) from the
-LAMMPS tutorials initiative.
+LAMMPS tutorials initiative, as well as a list of [Acknowledgements](ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md).
+
 
 ## Authors
 
@@ -25,11 +27,13 @@ LAMMPS tutorials initiative.
 - [Axel Kohlmeyer](https://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey), Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
 
 
+
 ## Acknowledgements
 
 - Simon Gravelle acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
   research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant
   agreement N°101065060$. 
 - Axel Kohlmeyer acknowledges financial support by Sandia National Laboratories
   under POs 2149742 and 2407526.
+  
 

generateREADME.sh

@@ -4,20 +4,28 @@ output_file="README.md"
 > "$output_file"
 
 files=()
-while IFS= read -r line; do
+while IFS= read -r line
+do
   files+=("$line")
 done < "files.txt"
 input_files="${files[@]}"
 
 # Loop through each file and append its content to the output file
-for file in "${files[@]}"; do
+for file in "${files[@]}"
+do
+
   # Check if file exists before attempting to read it
-  if [ -f "$file" ]; then
+  if [ -f "$file" ]
+  then
+
     # Append file content to the output file
     cat "$file" >> "$output_file"
-    # Append a blank line after each file's content
+
+    # Append blank line
     echo -e "\n" >> "$output_file"
+
   else
-    echo "Warning: File '$file' does not exist."
+    echo "WARNING: File '$file' does not exist."
   fi
+
 done