building a large file

[ben at co.and.co]

Andrew Dalke <dalke at acm.org> wrote:
> Emile van Sebille asked:
>>Doesn't tar do exactly this?
> 
> where "this" was defined by Thomas Duterme to mean:
>>> for x in os.listdir('.'):
>>>     os.system('cat '+x+' >> mylargefile)
> 
> No, tar doesn't do that because it adds data needed to
> extract each file.  On the other hand, cat does:
> 
> cat * > mylargefile
> 
> though this won't read the dotfiles.

But $ cat .* * > mylargefile does. 
 
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