Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 15

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:21, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:43:20 -0500
> Jeff Vian <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> > > It works, but you have to be careful about the input filename
> > > extensions (* is no good, obviously).
> > but in the example given it would be easy to make 3 parts and then add
> > those together.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> > cat *.? > test1.mpg
> > cat *.?? > test2.mpg
> > cat *.??? > test3.mpg
> > and finally 
> > cat test?.mpg > test.mpg
> 
> Unnecessary;
> 
> cat input.? >output.mpg
> cat input.?? >output.mpg
> cat input.??? >output.mpg

This doesn't work.  Remember the difference between > and >> in the
shell ???
In yours you will only have the parts input.??? in output.mpg.

> However, I was trying to leave the poster with something to do. 
> Otherwise, what do they learn?

Very true.  :-)

We will let him figure out the difference between mine and yours above
(and maybe the change in yours to fix it). :))