Actually the problem is some PEBKAC: the following is the reason for the error:

"[FO3*]" will expand to a list of all files which names start with "[FO3", end with "]" and have any number of characters of any sort (including none at all) in between these two parts. For example: "[F03]", "[F03x]", "[F03foobar]", etc..

The problem is: you have no file "[F03]", just some files "F03*"! "[" and "]" would be legal parts of a filename, but your files do not contain these. Similar for the target file: if you name it "[SMER_2.03.13.spu]" its name will be exactly that and not "SMER_2.03.13.spu".

But there is an even bigger problem with your command: "cp" copies files but it does not concatenate them. This is what another command, "cat" is for.

Do it the following way:

Code:

rm SMER_2.03.13.spu ; ls F03* | while read FILE ; do cat "$FILE" >> SMER_2.03.13.spu ; done

This will first delete any eventually existing file "SMER_2.03.13.spu", then concatenate one file after the other into this newly created file.

I hope this helps.

bakunin