Filemanagement

[Michael Wilson]

'cat' lists the content of the files to the standard
output, that is you command prompt.

the '*' matches any combination of characters before a
.pgn in any filename in the current directory (so all
the files ending in .pgn regardless of length). 

The '>' redirects the output from the standard output
(that is you command promt) to a file named 'newfile'.
Using a single '>' will create a new file and/or erase
a file that exists with that name, using a '>>' will
append the output to an already existing file.

 --- John Wildberger <wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> 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??
> John
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