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Concatenate Numerous Files
Hey!
I wanted to find a text version of the Bible for purposes of grepping. The only files I could find, (in the translation I wanted), were Old Testament.txt and New Testament.txt. I thought, "fine, I'll just concatenate those two, no problemo." But when I unpacked them, turns out they had each major book in it's own directory, often containing multiple text files. For example:
Code:
~/Desktop/New Testament/Colossians:
Colossians1.txt	Colossians2.txt	Colossians3.txt	Colossians4.txt

But, my faith in unix is strong, (possibly due to the depth of my ignorance). Can cat put all this together into one file - in order? I mean, the man page says that cat reads files sequentially, but what does that mean? If the directories were in order, (they're not now, I'll have to do that by hand), would cat work through them sequentially? I don't even see a recursive flag. Will it even move through directories? The truth is, I've only used cat to read files - not to actually concatenate them. Maybe I could feed it with ls, somehow?
I guess what I'm asking is, is there a one-liner that would get me through this, or am I expecting miracles?
Last edited by sudon't; 10-27-2012 at 02:19 AM.. Reason: new thought
 
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