Logic Analyzer Spike Time Cleanup Script

Here's a little bash script I use for cleaning up data files of spike times returned by the logic analyzer experiment

#!/bin/bash
# Cleans up logic analyzer data files prepended with "spike_times_"

FILES=spike_times_*

clean_file()
{
 echo processing $f
  sed -i 's/{//g' $1  # remove '{' at beginning of file
  sed -i 's/}//g' $1  # remove '}' at end of file
  sed -i 's/\ //g' $1  # remove ' ' spaces
  sed -i 's/,/\n/g' $1 # replace ',' with newlines
  sed -i '/^$/d' $1  # remove empty lines
}


for f in $FILES
do
 clean_file $f
done