Natalie Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I have shell script that is calling paste that is not acting as I would
| think that it would. When it gets to the paste part it should
| interpret the line as paste -d'\0' p[1-40] > new.file
In case you haven't heard, you're misinterpreting what how p[1-40] works.
It is expanded by your shell, so p[1-40] is the same as p[01234] and
matches files with these names: p0,p1,p2,p3,p4.
| but it only concatenates the first 4 files. it seems that it does not
| know how to interpret a 2 digit number. as you can see from the file, i
| also tried to put in the numbers themselves (1,2,3,etc.) but it still
| left off the 10th file.
