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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ConCATenating binaries but excluding last bytes from each file Post 302877663 by Don Cragun on Monday 2nd of December 2013 08:06:42 PM
Old 12-02-2013
Telling us that filenames are something like x-y where x and y are strings of digits isn't enough for us to figure out how to determine which file is file1, file2, ...

Give us details.
  1. How do you know which files are to be combined and in what order?
  2. Are the names of the files just two strings of digits separated by a single minus sign, or are the other characters in the name that need to be skipped over (or used to determine the order in which they're to be concatenated?
  3. How do you determine the output file name (or do you just want the output to be written to stout?
  4. Can we choose which shell we want to use, or have you decided the only one shell should be used? If only one, which one?
 

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cat

CAT(1)								   User Commands							    CAT(1)

NAME

       cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output

SYNOPSIS

       cat [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.

       -A, --show-all
	      equivalent to -vET

       -b, --number-nonblank
	      number nonempty output lines, overrides -n

       -e     equivalent to -vE

       -E, --show-ends
	      display $ at end of each line

       -n, --number
	      number all output lines

       -s, --squeeze-blank
	      suppress repeated empty output lines

       -t     equivalent to -vT

       -T, --show-tabs
	      display TAB characters as ^I

       -u     (ignored)

       -v, --show-nonprinting
	      use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

EXAMPLES

       cat f - g
	      Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents.

       cat    Copy standard input to standard output.

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report cat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR

       Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       tac(1)

       The  full  documentation  for cat is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and cat programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info coreutils 'cat invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.22						     June 2014								    CAT(1)
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