Concatenating files in order
bartc
bc at freeuk.com
Tue May 23 16:42:45 EDT 2017
On 23/05/2017 20:55, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> Yup. Make a list of all the file names, write a key function that
> extracts the numbery bits, sort the list based on that key function, and
> go to town.
Is it necessary to sort them? If XXX is known, then presumably the first
file will be called XXX_chunk_0, the next XXX_chunk_1 and so on.
It would be possible to iterate over such a sequence of filenames, and
keep opening them then writing them to the output until there are no
more files. Or, if a list of matching files is obtained, the length of
the list will also give you the last filename.
(But this won't work if there are gaps in the sequence or the numeric
format is variable.)
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bartc
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