http://tech-recipes.disqus.com/Cookbook of Tech TutorialsenFri, 25 Jun 2004 10:41:37 -0000http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/166/loop-over-a-set-of-files-from-the-shell/#comment-2767069<p>Possibly a bit pedantic, but to save system time (especially if using multiple times in a script) you may be better to do the following for the last part...</p><p>cat `ls -tr *.log` &gt;biglog</p><p>The cat is designed to be able to put two or more files together.</p><p>By doing it this way, you don't need to worry about the existence or contents of biglog as you will overwrite it with the &gt; rather than using apend to &gt;&gt;</p>guestFri, 25 Jun 2004 10:41:37 -0000