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Old 04-20-2007
Scripting Help

Hello all.

Like Ive stated before, I am new to world of Unix. I was given the tast to create a script that will concatenate 20 files into one file. I know that the cat command is to be used but I am looking for something to get started on. Again, basically I need to wrtie a script that whill concatenate 20 files into one file that holds all the 20 files.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 04-20-2007
Code:
> bigfile
for i in file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 file8 file9 file10  \
         file11 file12 file13 file14 file15 file16 file17 file18 file19 file20 
do
     cat $file >> bigfile
done

# 3  
Old 04-20-2007
Code:
cat file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 file8 file9 file10  \
         file11 file12 file13 file14 file15 file16 file17 file18 file19 file20 > bigfile

# 4  
Old 04-20-2007
Thanks again guys, I got it! Smilie Smilie Smilie
 
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