joining multiple PDFs into one

[Thomas Milne]

Here's the problem right here: you are completely wrong.

cat file1 file2 > file will give you, with a compliant file type, the
contents of _both_ file1 and file2. It will NOT overwrite the contents
of file1 with file2. Using >> is for when the outfile already exists
and you want to append to it instead of overwriting.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Russ <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The command is cat. It is the operator > or >> which controls whether or not existing data is preserved. Thats why he could only see the last page when he used >
> Each new page overwrote the previous one.
>
> Andrej Marjan <andrej-igvx78u1SeH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Russ <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Actually the original poster used > which overwites existing data, >>
>>> appends new data to the old. I'm surprised that having multiple pdf headers
>>> in the body of the document doesn't cause some confusion, but perhaps
>>> modern parsing software can deal with this.
>>>
>>
> >From the cat(1) manpage:
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------
>>SYNOPSIS
>>       cat [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>>
>>DESCRIPTION
>>       Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
>>-------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>The two commandlines are equivalent.
>



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