Emile van Sebille asked:
>Doesn't tar do exactly this?
where "this" was defined by Thomas Duterme to mean:
>> for x in os.listdir('.'):
>> os.system('cat '+x+' >> mylargefile)
No, tar doesn't do that because it adds data needed to
extract each file. On the other hand, cat does:
cat * > mylargefile
though this won't read the dotfiles.
Andrew
dalke at acm.org