Filemanagement

[John Wildberger]

> > 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.
With  just two files a.pgn and b.pgn the command line for cat *.pgn > newfile 
will then be expanded to cat a.pgn b.pgn > newline. 
Therefore the CLI limit will be affected by the sum of the filename length and 
not by the content of the files. Did I get this right ???
John

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