[plug] appending files

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:03:40PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> I need to append files that are already compressed (log files) into one
> (1) file.
> Would the best way be to unzip the file and do a cp file1+file2?

Your DOS is showing. ::-) You can join files with the conCATenate
command ("cat" takes one or more files, and sends them through to the
output).

Usually you would have to uncompress, but in the special case of gzip,
you don't. If gunzip sees two chunks of compressed text one after the
other, it will process both.

So - you can go ;
$ cat *.log.gz > biglog.gz

...rather than ;
$ gunzip *.log.gz
$ cat *.log | gzip > biglog.gz

Nick.

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