[GLLUG] why doesn't this work?

[Bong Munoz]

Marshal Newrock wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Rambo wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to combine the text of all files in a directory into one
>>large file with the one liner:
>>
>>for TARGET in `ls | awk {'print $9'}`; do cat $TARGET >> makeAll.mysql;
>>done;
> 
> That is indeed puzzling.  I can think of two possible things: 1) that the
> files are symlinks to other files, which are missing, or 2) that the
> filenames contain non-printable characters.  See what 'ls -lQ' says.

Mike, why not omit awk from the one-liner: for target in `ls -1`; do cat 
$target >>makeall.mysql; done?

"ls -1" returns the one filename per line so you can omit awk.  I tried 
it this way and I can concatenate all files into a single file.  Even 
shorter is the standard: cat *.mysql >>makeall.mysql.

--bong