Re: [SLUG] my next stupid question

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Alister Waller">

> for i in `ls *.TXT`
> do
>  cat $i >> newfilename
>  mv $i /tmp
> done

Why cat? cp $i newfilename would do pretty well.

> Now, if there are no *.TXT files then I get an error sent back to the owner
> of the crontab file.

"2> /dev/null"

If you're not interested in the stderr output of the loop, put the entire
loop in parentheses and direct stderr to /dev/null from it.

- Jeff

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