[SunHELP] Copy Files - Append Option

Rich Lafferty sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon May 14 19:46:20 CDT 2001


On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:34:52PM -0500, Thomas_Cameron at Dell.com (Thomas_Cameron at Dell.com) wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in `ls`; do
>   cat $i >> /path/to/destination/file
> done

Holy cow!

cat * >> /path/to/destination/file

(Replace '>>' with '>' if you want the destination file to be
overwritten with the first cat'd file, and then the rest appended to
it.)

  -Rich

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