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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:25:26 +0100
From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Concatenating 2 or more mbox format files
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:06:02PM -0500, Michael Joyner wrote:
> Quoting Michael Joyner <mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx>:
> oops, typo! 
> 
> should be:
> 
> cat mboxfile1 > newfile
> echo >> newfile
> cat mboxfile2 >> newfile
> 
A pretty damn serious typo if I may say so....

> :)
> 
> > Quoting BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>:
> > 
> > cat mboxfile1 > newfile
> > echo > newfile
> > cat mboxfile2 > newfile
> > 
> > the echo is *very* important. ;)
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have a quick and easy way to concatenate two or more MBOX 
> > > format mailbox files? I tried:
> > > 
> > > cat mboxfile1 mboxfile2 > newfile
> > > 
> > > but it didn't really work.......
> > > 
> > > Thanks......
> > > 

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