This is certainly useful but in essence, would this take a longer time than usual? The reason being - we have 12 log files, running on 6 clones, and we are required to keep them for xx days but would like to 'cat' them ala Unix but the app server is running on Wintel boxes.

So far the closest thing I can find in the ActivePerl manual is this command line:

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat file1 file2 .. > merge_file

If I want to pass the files as parameters, can I call the above command within another perl script? So I would have a Perl script called catFiles.pl file1 file 2 > merge_file and in the script, I would have:

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat $arg[0] $arg1 > $arg3

but it doesnt seem to work. At the moment, I could get it to work by creating a dos batch and passing the args to the perl command, but it is not ideal. Thanks again

In reply to Re^2: How do I append more than one files? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do I append more than one files? by Anonymous Monk

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