building a large file

[Steve Purcell]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Danger, Will Robinson. This will include directories (current and parent, .
> and .. respectively) in your match, probably not a good idea. I seem to
> remember that the correct pattern should be
> 
> $ cat .??* * > mylargefile
> 
> but I have no doubt this too will prove to be wrong in some subtle way I
> have omitted to consider.


Yes, it wouldn't match a file called '.x' because of the two question marks.

I'll see your glob and raise you:   ls .[^.]* *

Even better:   find . -type f|xargs cat > mylargefile

-Steve

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