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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Faster Concatenation of files Post 302123616 by tkbharani on Tuesday 26th of June 2007 08:59:35 AM
Old 06-26-2007
Faster Concatenation of files

Dear All

I am using cat command for concatenating multiple files. Some time i also use append command when there are few files.
Is there faster way of concatenating multiple files(60 to 70 files) each of
156 MB or less/more.
Smilie

Thanx
 

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DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)						      dracut						       DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)

NAME
dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images SYNOPSIS
dracut-catimages [OPTION...] <initramfs base image> [<image>...] DESCRIPTION
dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line and /boot/dracut/*.img OPTIONS
-f, --force overwrite existing initramfs file. -i, --imagedir Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/) -o, --overlaydir Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image --nooverlay Do not use the overlay directory --noimagedir Do not use the additional image directory -h, --help display help text and exit. --debug output debug information of the build process -v, --verbose verbose output during the build process FILES
/boot/dracut/*.img images to work with AUTHORS
Harald Hoyer AVAILABILITY
The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org SEE ALSO
dracut(8) dracut 09/12/2013 DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)
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