Filemanagement

Chris F.A. Johnson c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 8 02:25:09 UTC 2004


On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, John Wildberger wrote:

> On Sunday 07 March 2004 05:53 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, John Wildberger wrote:
> > > Can you enlighten me what CLI length is?
> >
> > The maximum number of characters on a single line passed to the shell
> > (CLI=command line interface).
>
> With this explanation I will have to revise my understanding of the mechanics
> in the execution of the command   cat *.pgn > newfile.
> Are all the *.pgn files first listed on one line before they are passed into
> newfile??

   The shell expands the wildcard and passes the list to the command.


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