On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:52, Gary Thornock wrote: > > --- 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.
If it's a really *huge* list of files it will take a while to sort them. Using an unsorted list will speed things up: $ cat $(ls -f) >foo.txt Or any other variation using find, xargs, etc. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
