Re: joining a bunch of files

[Luke Davis <ldavis@shellworld.net>]

All kinds of easy solutions come to mind, none of which will necessarily
do them in order.

This, however, should (I just tested it locally on similarly named
files; it works under bash):

eval `ls -1 file.a[0-9][0-9] | awk '{print "cat", $1, ">> file;"}'

Regards,

Luke



On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Brent Harding wrote:

> 		I encrypted a zip archive I had with pgp. Now, I have files with
> extensions of a01 to a99 that have to be joined in order from 01 to 99 so I
> can decrypt the whole thing. Decrypting only the first doesn't return
> everything, so it must be split, used the a option, and rezipped the 99
> files to another archive so I wouldn't have 99 files laying around. How do
> I put the files together to make one huge file without having to type all
> the echo <file.a01 >> file
> echo <file.a02 >> file
>  and so on up to 99?
> There must be a copy a range, like echo <file.a01-a99 >> file, or something
> on that order. Using * won't necessarily copy them in numeric order though.
>
>
>
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