> --- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
A note about wildcards. Yes, you can use them. You may want to note that the shell will expand the wildcard in /sorted/ order. So, if you care about the order that your files appear in the big output file, make sure the names are ordered the way you want them. Also, note that it's an "asciibetical" sort, so, for instance, 10 comes after 1 but before 2. If your files are numerically named, use leading zeroes to get the proper sort order. - Gary ===== PGP Key ID: 071B173D Fingerprint: ED30 B048 6833 56B4 28C0 CE52 F12B 884A 071B 173D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
