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Hi, How can i check for .txt file in a directory and find out the biggest file among them and then append the rest ones in that big file at any time and move that file somewhere. At the maximum we can expect 5 .txt files in that directory. those files comes as an ftp. Please help.. Thanks in advance. Regards, Tomba

Name: David Perry
Date: May 5, 2005 at 04:46:09 Pacific

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if [ -s filename.txt ] ; then echo "FILE EXISTS" fi BIGFILE=`ls -s /dir | sort -nr | head -1` man test man ls man cat

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