anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ls | grep -v "\.dat$" | xargs cat > newfile > > > > Even better! Cheers, > I have heard of most of these commands but it is a matter of > remembering them all at once... anyone had any ads for brain enlargers > in their inboxes recently? > > ;-0 > Anton >
Or how about cat `ls | grep -v '\.dat$'` > newfile2 note the use of backticks. -- -- |Andrew Tarr | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz |GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg |_____ "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" --Francis Bacon |~~~~~ |
