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Why does this not work? "ls *.txt | xargs cat > all.txt" (all files into single txt document)
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Mar 15, 202645178 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Why does this not work? (I want to join the contents of all text files into a single 'all.txt' file.) find with -exec should also work, but I would really like to understand the xargs syntax. Thanks
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ls *.txt | xargs cat > all.txt
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might work a bit better, since it would append to all.txt instead of creating it again after each file. By the way, would also work. :-)
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