On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:45, Carl Youngblood wrote: > Can I give a wildcard to cat instead of a list? There are a lot of > files.
The shell will glob the pattern you give into a list. cat doesn't have to know anything about wildcards for this to work. So yes, you can use a wildcard. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> âThe programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.â -- Fredrick Brooks, Mythical Man Month
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