Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I'd like to merge several ldif files into one. however simple cat *.ldif >> all.ldif is not working ( the data content is not sequential ), and also "more *.ldif > all.ldif" adds file names. I'd like all.ldif to be

all.ldif

content of 1.ldif
content of 2.ldif
-
-


Also, i came through this thread but the script doesn't work.

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...rge-files.html

code
#!/bin/sh
echo enter file name
read f
echo enter number of such files
read n
i=1
while test $i -ne $n
do
echo $f$i >> outfile
cat $f$i >> outfile
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

Can anyone help me to do this.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards, John

Perhaps this will work?

Code:

ls *.ldif|sort -n|xargs cat > ldif.out

Thanks it works, but i would like to segregate the content with a blank line.

How can i do that?

Like this for instance:

Code:

ls *.ldif|sort -n| 
while read file; do
  cat $file
  echo
done> ldif.out

Yep, it works ..thanks a lot !!!