Filemanagement

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, G. Matthew Rice wrote:

> "Peter L. Peres" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > ls *.pgn|xargs cat2 -o target.file
> >
> > cat2 is from the cdwtools package. See cat2 --help after you install it.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but isn't regular cat good enough?
>
>         cat *.pgn >target.file
>
> Also, ls/xargs won't help here.  If 'cat *.pgn' creates too long of a command
> line, so will 'ls *.pgn'.  Variations around find(1) would work, though.
> Something like:
>
>         find . -name '*.pgn' | xargs cat >target.file

Yes, correct, my bad. Anything that expands a couple of hundred files as
CLI arguments will likely fail. Also that should be cat >>target.file

Peter
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