Filemanagement

[Peter L. Peres]

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

> "Peter L. Peres" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > >         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
>
> Why '>>'?  The shell is only opening target.file once for this entire
> command.  As evidence, I offer:
> ... snip

I was presuming that the file would already exist and/or that the command
would be run more than once.

Peter
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