cat help

I have a list of files

SLOg1.htm
SLOg10.htm
SLOg11.htm
SLOg12.htm
SLOg13.htm
SLOg14.htm
SLOg15.htm
SLOg16-18.htm
SLOg16.htm
SLOg17.htm
SLOg18.htm
SLOg19.htm
SLOg2.htm
SLOg20.htm
SLOg21-22.htm
SLOg21.htm
SLOg22.htm
SLOg23.htm
SLOg24.htm
SLOg25.htm
SLOg26.htm
SLOg27.htm
SLOg28.htm
SLOg29.htm
SLOg3.htm

I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm

The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....

How can append as per the ascending file name patter.

Re: cat help

On 2008-01-07, sant527@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> I have a list of files
>
> SLOg1.htm
> SLOg10.htm
> SLOg11.htm
> SLOg12.htm
> SLOg13.htm
> SLOg14.htm
> SLOg15.htm
> SLOg16-18.htm
> SLOg16.htm
> SLOg17.htm
> SLOg18.htm
> SLOg19.htm
> SLOg2.htm
> SLOg20.htm
> SLOg21-22.htm
> SLOg21.htm
> SLOg22.htm
> SLOg23.htm
> SLOg24.htm
> SLOg25.htm
> SLOg26.htm
> SLOg27.htm
> SLOg28.htm
> SLOg29.htm
> SLOg3.htm
>
> I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm
>
> The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
> SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....
>
> How can append as per the ascending file name patter.

cat SLOg?.htm SLOg??.htm
I'm not sure where you'd want to put SLOg16-18.htm or SLOg21-22.htm or
other hyphenated files. You could create a list in the order you want
and do
while read file; do
cat "$file" >> hare.htm
done < listfile

Re: cat help

On Jan 7, 12:16 pm, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 2008-01-07, sant...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I have a list of files
>
> > SLOg1.htm
> > SLOg10.htm
> > SLOg11.htm
> > SLOg12.htm
> > SLOg13.htm
> > SLOg14.htm
> > SLOg15.htm
> > SLOg16-18.htm
> > SLOg16.htm
> > SLOg17.htm
> > SLOg18.htm
> > SLOg19.htm
> > SLOg2.htm
> > SLOg20.htm
> > SLOg21-22.htm
> > SLOg21.htm
> > SLOg22.htm
> > SLOg23.htm
> > SLOg24.htm
> > SLOg25.htm
> > SLOg26.htm
> > SLOg27.htm
> > SLOg28.htm
> > SLOg29.htm
> > SLOg3.htm
>
> > I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm
>
> > The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
> > SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....
>
> > How can append as per the ascending file name patter.
>
> cat SLOg?.htm SLOg??.htm
> I'm not sure where you'd want to put SLOg16-18.htm or SLOg21-22.htm or
> other hyphenated files. You could create a list in the order you want
> and do
> while read file; do
> cat "$file" >> hare.htm
> done < listfile

But in windows the files are being selected as per I desire. Why not
unix

Re: cat help

On Jan 7, 12:30 pm, "sant...@gmail.com" wrote:
> On Jan 7, 12:16 pm, Bill Marcum wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 2008-01-07, sant...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > I have a list of files
>
> > > SLOg1.htm
> > > SLOg10.htm
> > > SLOg11.htm
> > > SLOg12.htm
> > > SLOg13.htm
> > > SLOg14.htm
> > > SLOg15.htm
> > > SLOg16-18.htm
> > > SLOg16.htm
> > > SLOg17.htm
> > > SLOg18.htm
> > > SLOg19.htm
> > > SLOg2.htm
> > > SLOg20.htm
> > > SLOg21-22.htm
> > > SLOg21.htm
> > > SLOg22.htm
> > > SLOg23.htm
> > > SLOg24.htm
> > > SLOg25.htm
> > > SLOg26.htm
> > > SLOg27.htm
> > > SLOg28.htm
> > > SLOg29.htm
> > > SLOg3.htm
>
> > > I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm
>
> > > The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
> > > SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....
>
> > > How can append as per the ascending file name patter.
>
> > cat SLOg?.htm SLOg??.htm
> > I'm not sure where you'd want to put SLOg16-18.htm or SLOg21-22.htm or
> > other hyphenated files. You could create a list in the order you want
> > and do
> > while read file; do
> > cat "$file" >> hare.htm
> > done < listfile
>
> But in windows the files are being selected as per I desire. Why not
> unix

Is there no any other way so that I can do the things easily

Re: cat help

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:30:23 -0800 (PST), sant527@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> > SLOg1.htm
>> > SLOg10.htm
>> > SLOg11.htm
>> > SLOg12.htm
>> > SLOg13.htm
>> > SLOg14.htm
>> > SLOg15.htm
>> > SLOg16-18.htm
>> > SLOg16.htm
>> > SLOg17.htm
>> > SLOg18.htm
>> > SLOg19.htm
>> > SLOg2.htm
>> > SLOg20.htm
>> > SLOg21-22.htm
>> > SLOg21.htm
>> > SLOg22.htm
>> > SLOg23.htm
>> > SLOg24.htm
>> > SLOg25.htm
>> > SLOg26.htm
>> > SLOg27.htm
>> > SLOg28.htm
>> > SLOg29.htm
>> > SLOg3.htm
>>
>> > I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm
>>
>> > The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
>> > SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....
>>
>> > How can append as per the ascending file name patter.
>>
>> cat SLOg?.htm SLOg??.htm
>> I'm not sure where you'd want to put SLOg16-18.htm or SLOg21-22.htm or
>> other hyphenated files. You could create a list in the order you want
>> and do
>> while read file; do
>> cat "$file" >> hare.htm
>> done < listfile
>
> But in windows the files are being selected as per I desire. Why not
> unix

Must be a bug in Windows. SLOg10.html is before SLOg2.htm in
lexical order.

With the zsh shell, you can specify the sorting order. For a
numerical sort:

cat SLO*(n) > hare.htm

You can also sort according to the date of last modification:

cat SLO*(Om) > hare.htm

will concatenate the files starting from the oldest and to the
newest.

The part inside (...) is called globbing qualifiers in zsh. The
"o" is for "odering", capital O is for reverse order, it's
followed by a letter that specifies the ordering method. By
default, zsh sorts by name so that cat SLO* is like cat SLO*(on)
om, is to [o]rder by [m]odification time. "n" is another
globbing qualifier that further qualifies the sorting by name
and specifies a numerical sorting. (n) is like (non).

The GNU implementation of ls has a "-v" option to sort by
"version" number, so you can do:

eval "cat < /dev/null $(ls -v --quoting-stype=shell LOG*)" > hare.htm

"< /dev/null" is to prevent that command from hanging if there's
no matching file.

--
Stephane

Re: cat help

On Jan 7, 1:18 pm, Stephane Chazelas
wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:30:23 -0800 (PST), sant...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> >> > SLOg1.htm
> >> > SLOg10.htm
> >> > SLOg11.htm
> >> > SLOg12.htm
> >> > SLOg13.htm
> >> > SLOg14.htm
> >> > SLOg15.htm
> >> > SLOg16-18.htm
> >> > SLOg16.htm
> >> > SLOg17.htm
> >> > SLOg18.htm
> >> > SLOg19.htm
> >> > SLOg2.htm
> >> > SLOg20.htm
> >> > SLOg21-22.htm
> >> > SLOg21.htm
> >> > SLOg22.htm
> >> > SLOg23.htm
> >> > SLOg24.htm
> >> > SLOg25.htm
> >> > SLOg26.htm
> >> > SLOg27.htm
> >> > SLOg28.htm
> >> > SLOg29.htm
> >> > SLOg3.htm
>
> >> > I am using the command cat SLO* > hare.htm
>
> >> > The problem is the sequence of appending is shown above rather than
> >> > SLOg1.htm SLOg2.htm Slog3.htm .....
>
> >> > How can append as per the ascending file name patter.
>
> >> cat SLOg?.htm SLOg??.htm
> >> I'm not sure where you'd want to put SLOg16-18.htm or SLOg21-22.htm or
> >> other hyphenated files. You could create a list in the order you want
> >> and do
> >> while read file; do
> >> cat "$file" >> hare.htm
> >> done < listfile
>
> > But in windows the files are being selected as per I desire. Why not
> > unix
>
> Must be a bug in Windows. SLOg10.html is before SLOg2.htm in
> lexical order.
>
> With the zsh shell, you can specify the sorting order. For a
> numerical sort:
>
> cat SLO*(n) > hare.htm
>
> You can also sort according to the date of last modification:
>
> cat SLO*(Om) > hare.htm
>
> will concatenate the files starting from the oldest and to the
> newest.
>
> The part inside (...) is called globbing qualifiers in zsh. The
> "o" is for "odering", capital O is for reverse order, it's
> followed by a letter that specifies the ordering method. By
> default, zsh sorts by name so that cat SLO* is like cat SLO*(on)
> om, is to [o]rder by [m]odification time. "n" is another
> globbing qualifier that further qualifies the sorting by name
> and specifies a numerical sorting. (n) is like (non).
>
> The GNU implementation of ls has a "-v" option to sort by
> "version" number, so you can do:
>
> eval "cat < /dev/null $(ls -v --quoting-stype=shell LOG*)" > hare.htm
>
> "< /dev/null" is to prevent that command from hanging if there's
> no matching file.
>
> --
> Stephane

Thanks

cat $(ls -v SLO*) > SLOKA.htm

It works

Re: cat help

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:19:58 -0800 (PST), sant527@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> eval "cat < /dev/null $(ls -dv --quoting-stype=shell LOG*)" > hare.htm
[...]
> cat $(ls -v SLO*) > SLOKA.htm

Note that that only works if none of the file names contain SPC,
TAB, NL. *, ? or [ characters, hence my usage of eval and
--quoting-style=shell.

--
Stephane

Re: cat help

"sant527@gmail.com" writes:

> I have a list of files
>
> SLOg1.htm
> SLOg10.htm

If I can, i use names that sort well, i.e. SLOg01.htm instead of
SLOg1.htm If it has a date in the name, I use YYMMDD so the default
sort is always chronological.

Re: cat help

Below is simple script you could use that.
Also I belive this could be done in awk using tagged regular
expression but I dont know much about it. I am newbie to UNIX.


#!/bin/ksh

COUNTER="1"

while(true)
do
cat slg${COUNTER}.htm >> hare.htm
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
file slg${COUNTER}.htm
if [[ -f slg${COUNTER}.htm && ! -d slg${COUNTER}.htm && -r slg$
{COUNTER}.htm ]]
then
continue
else
break
fi
done

Re: cat help

Teddy wrote:
> Below is simple script you could use that.
> Also I belive this could be done in awk using tagged regular
> expression but I dont know much about it. I am newbie to UNIX.
>
>
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> COUNTER="1"
>
> while(true)
> do
> cat slg${COUNTER}.htm >> hare.htm
> let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
> file slg${COUNTER}.htm
> if [[ -f slg${COUNTER}.htm && ! -d slg${COUNTER}.htm && -r slg$
> {COUNTER}.htm ]]
> then
> continue
> else
> break
> fi
> done



sant527@gmail.com wrote:
> [...]
> SLOg16-18.htm
> [...]
> SLOg21-22.htm

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