Filemanagement

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 07 March 2004 15:08, G. Matthew Rice wrote:

> 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

If I'm going to run into problems with to many files I usually handle it this 
way:

    TARGET=dest_dir/big_file.pgn
    find source_dir/ -name '*.pgn' | while read file; do
        cat "$file" > $TARGET
    done

Not saying it's the best way but at least it handles spaces in filenames 
properly (something Windows users seem to love).

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