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

Maybe zazzybob's earlier post would work for me. He wrote this code earlier:

$ cd /path/to/files
$ files=*
$ cat $files > bigfile


So if I had several unknown file names in a local working directory I could copy them all to one big file with the above?


Bob
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