I didn't use xargs, but I did cat `ls | sort` >file. At 04:33 PM 11/30/01 -0500, you wrote: > >What about: > > ls file_prefix_* | sort | xargs cat > final_file > > >Nicolas > > >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Brent Harding wrote: > >> I've heard of this, but it doesn't appear to be the thing, dos would do it >> if I copied and typed in all the names, would run out of command line >> anyway, 255 character limit. >> At 03:51 PM 11/30/01 -0500, you wrote: >> >Join, meaning the relational database utility? >> > >> >Even if that can do this, and I'm not convinsed that it can, that is a lot >> >of learning for a simple problem--from one readthrough of the man page, I >> >have no clear picture of what this is even supposed to acomplish, let >> >alone how to make it do things for which it does not appear to be >> >intended. >> > >> > >> >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com wrote: >> > >> >> man join >> >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:57:15PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: >> >> > I encrypted a zip archive I had with pgp. Now, I have files with >> >> > extensions of a01 to a99 that have to be joined in order from 01 to 99 >> so I >> >> > can decrypt the whole thing. Decrypting only the first doesn't return >> >> > everything, so it must be split, used the a option, and rezipped the 99 >> >> > files to another archive so I wouldn't have 99 files laying around. >> How do >> >> > I put the files together to make one huge file without having to type all >> >> > the echo <file.a01 >> file >> >> > echo <file.a02 >> file >> >> > and so on up to 99? >> >> > There must be a copy a range, like echo <file.a01-a99 >> file, or >> something >> >> > on that order. Using * won't necessarily copy them in numeric order >> though. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > >> >> > Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> > >> >Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >