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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Question regarding Cat Post 302585346 by methyl on Wednesday 28th of December 2011 07:15:49 AM
Old 12-28-2011
Yes. Just bear in mind that "cat" literally concatontates the contents of the files and the new file does not contain any file names or file separation whatsoever. If you need to preserve the separation of files, consider use "tar".

Code:
cat 2009* > file_containing_all_of_2009

 

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