joining multiple PDFs into one

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Russ wrote:
> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Russ wrote:
>>
>>> In some environments you cannot append to a file which does not yet exist.
>>
>>   That was true on the Amiga, IIRC, but not in any Unix environment
>>   that I know of, and certainly not in GNU/Linux.

> I believe if noclobber is set, csh and tcsh won't do it without ! or |

   True, but [t]csh shouldn't be used for scripting:

     Top Ten Reasons not to use the C shell:
     <http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt>

     Csh problems: <http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html#uh-0>

     Csh Programming Considered Harmful:
     <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/>

   ...and it offers no improvement over bash at the command line.


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    Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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