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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Concatenation of multiple files with wildcard Post 302313318 by figaro on Tuesday 5th of May 2009 10:18:23 AM
Old 05-05-2009
Concatenation of multiple files with wildcard
I have the following snippet to concatenate about a hundred csv-files:
Code:
for file in *csv; do cat $file >> newfile; done

This line works, but before I was experimenting with the following line, which is more intuitive and is a tad more robust:
Code:
for file in *.csv; do cat $file >> newfile; done

Can someone tell me why the dot (.) leads to an error message?
Code:
#cat: *.csv: No such file or directory

Thanks in advance
Last edited by figaro; 05-05-2009 at 11:19 AM.. Reason: Syntactical correction
 

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