That should work as well, although mine was far more fun to write.:) On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Nicolas Pitre 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 >