On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:33:19PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alister Waller">
>
> > for i in `ls *.TXT`
> > do
> > cat $i >> newfilename
> > mv $i /tmp
> > done
>
> Why cat? cp $i newfilename would do pretty well.
No it wouldn't. Note the `>>'.
> > Now, if there are no *.TXT files then I get an error sent back to the owner
> > of the crontab file.
Try this:
cat *.TXT >> newfilename 2>/dev/null
mv *.TXT /tmp 2>/dev/null
Or even:
(cat *.TXT >> newfilename && mv *.TXT /tmp) 2>/dev/null
Note that this will create `newfilename' even if there are no files
matching `*.TXT'.
Cheers,
John
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