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Old 09-30-2004
concatenating x files into a one...

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i have 4 files to concatenate but in a certain order and i wanted to do it in a shorter one line command , if possible !

4 files : file , file0 , file1 and file2

file1 into file2
file0 into the result
file into the result

thanks in advance

Christian
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Old 09-30-2004
well it seems that the following works :

cat file1 file0 file >> file2


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