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Subject: Re: concat files ?
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 22 Nov 2001 07:28:06 +0100
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Bill Burton <billb@progress.com> wrote:

> You could do this on UNIX without an external script but you would
> have to execute the entire command line through /bin/sh -c "cat
> file1 file2 file3 >>target_file".

wouldn't 

<exec executable="cat" output="target_file">
  <arg file="file1" />
  <arg file="file2" />
  <arg file="file3" />
</exec>

work as well - without the need for shell redirects?

Stefan

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