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On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:12 PM, David Livesay wrote:
> Dear Scripters,
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> I'd like to concatenate a bunch of files in a directory, in
> sequential order. Since the files' names start with the same
> characters, and end in dates, I can get a nice, ordered file list
> from the ls command. What I'd like to do is to pipe this file list
> to cat in such a way that it will concatenate the files, not just
> the names.
>
> The filenames look like this:
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> notes-20080401, notes-20080402, notes-20080403, notes-20080404,
> notes-20080405, etc.
>
> And what I'd like to do is something like this:
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> ls notes-* | [??] | cat > notes
>
> The [??] is the part I can't figure out.
>
cat notes-* > notes
-Mark
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