<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.
> Now, if there are no *.TXT files then I get an error sent back to the owner
> of the crontab file.
"2> /dev/null"
If you're not interested in the stderr output of the loop, put the entire
loop in parentheses and direct stderr to /dev/null from it.
- Jeff
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