Filemanagement

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, John Wildberger wrote:
>
> > > 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.

    Right.

> 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 ???

    I don't know whether it's the total length, or the number of
    arguments, or a combination of both, but it has nothing to do with
    the contents of the files.

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