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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Merge all the files in a folder in FIFO order Post 302655785 by Lem on Wednesday 13th of June 2012 06:01:00 PM
Old 06-13-2012
Usually it's a very bad thing to use ls instead of find for task like this, but... being really careful, try to see:

Code:
cd mydirectory
ls -1rt | while read item; do [[ -f $item ]] && cat $item >> /somewhereelse/outputfile ; done

 

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menu_item_opts(3CURSES) 				     Curses Library Functions					   menu_item_opts(3CURSES)

NAME
menu_item_opts, set_item_opts, item_opts_on, item_opts_off, item_opts - menus item option routines SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lmenu -lcurses [ library... ] #include <menu.h> int set_item_opts(ITEM *item, OPTIONS opts); int item_opts_on(ITEM *item, OPTIONS opts); int item_opts_off(ITEM *item, OPTIONS opts); OPTIONS item_opts(ITEM *item); DESCRIPTION
set_item_opts() turns on the named options for item and turns off all other options. Options are boolean values that can be OR-ed together. item_opts_on() turns on the named options for item; no other option is changed. item_opts_off() turns off the named options for item; no other option is changed. item_opts() returns the current options of item. O_SELECTABLE The item can be selected during menu processing. RETURN VALUES
Except for item_opts(), these routines return one of the following: E_OK The routine returned successfully. E_SYSTEM_ERROR System error. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header <menu.h> automatically includes the headers <eti.h> and <curses.h>. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 menu_item_opts(3CURSES)
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