-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- odd.. it doesn't work the same way in tcsh.. must be a wierd property of bash Thank You, Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Wed, 16 May 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I need to concatenate a series of text files into one large file. Knowing > just enough to be dangerous, I ended up with the following test: > > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file1 > A > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file2 > B > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file3 > C > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file1 >> cat file2 >> cat file3 > newfile > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat newfile > A > B > C > wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ > > This is exactly what I want, but the redirection on the command line doesn't > make sense to me. In fact, the order seems exactly opposite from what it > seems like it should be. > > Can anyone elighten me? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.org > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOwLSFMtpDhsSpvgtAQH0EgQAq70bcBda6Rix2xh9794F2wP/v7AQnGZg qz4oih/FXh2TDnizxKufzS+RR+OjtLF/A6fglknoLWeOJgNntwMg4iniBGALF3YU 31xk+QM31RbacrQfxMAdiEsD3QUEtM69l4awNfVvOm8m/5iQHSkgs/TcfpvptuWd LnNkOMJggtk= =4ikU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----