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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to concatenate all files. Post 81618 by s80bob on Monday 22nd of August 2005 04:13:08 PM
Old 08-22-2005
How to concatenate all files.
Hi, I'm totally new to Unix. I'm an MVS mainframer but ran into a situation where a Unix server I have available will help me. I want to be able to remotely connect to another server using FTP, login and MGET all files from it's root or home directory, logout, then login as a different user and do the same thing. I need to do this for 7 accounts. Each accounts home directory will have 0 or a number of files (but not more then about ten files). Once I'm done transfering all these files to a local directory, I'll want to concatenate all the transfered files into one large file for subsequent batch processing.

I thought I would write a Unix script to:
1) switch directories to a local working directory
2) remove any residual files in the local working directory
3) run FTP connecting and transferring files from 7 different accounts into the local working directory
4) concatenate all the transferred files to one large file.
5) run FTP again this time sending the one large file to an MVS mainframe.

My question is how do I accomplish item number 4? I was thinking I could use grep and pipe. I just want to concatenate all the files into one. The input filenames will be unknown, but I do want to specify the target filename.


Is this possibe? It has to be no?


Thanks in advance.
Bob
 

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ncftpbatch

ncftpbatch(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ncftpbatch(1)

NAME

       ncftpbatch - Individual batch FTP job processor

SYNOPSIS

       ncftpbatch -d

       ncftpbatch -l

       ncftpbatch -D

OPTIONS

   Command line flags:
       -d      Begin  background  processing  of FTP jobs in the current user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory.  This returns immediately, because a
	       daemon process is spawned and ran in the background.

       -l      Lists the contents of the user's job queue.

       -D      This is like -d, except that the process does not become a daemon.

DESCRIPTION

       This program is responsible for processing background FTP requests.  It is normally only run by ncftp and not manually by  a  human  being,
       however you can run it to manually process the FTP job queue.

       The  jobs are spool files written to a user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory and have a special format and file-naming convention (which con-
       tains when the job is to be run).  ncftp runs this program when it needs to, but if the ncftpbatch daemon dies unexpectedly the	jobs  that
       are left in the queue will not be processed until another instance of ncftpbatch is run.

       ncftpget  and  ncftpput can also be used to submit jobs for batch processing, using those utilities' -b command-line flag.  If desired, you
       can also manually create the spool files although this procedure is not documented here (see the manual	page  for  ncftpspooler  for  more
       information on how to do that).

DIAGNOSTICS

       ncftpbatch  writes  to its own log file, the $HOME/.ncftp/spool/log file.  This file should be examined to determine if any ncftpbatch pro-
       cesses are actively working on jobs.

AUTHOR

       Mike Gleason, NcFTP Software (mgleason@ncftp.com).

SEE ALSO

       ncftp(1), ncftpput(1), ncftpget(1).

Software							       NcFTP							     ncftpbatch(1)
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