How can I collect several files into a single file?
I tried GZip, but could only get it to create separate files.
It does not have to be compressed.
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I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but the typical format for creating an archive (without compression) containing many files in Linux is [tar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29). It is then possible to compress the tar file. I believe commands such as gzip are supposed to work on single files and must be combined with tar for multiple files, e.g. .tar.gz would be a compressed (gzipped) tar. – Bob May 12 '12 at 11:59
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thats what i want collect all files in one file how to do it by tar? – rezx May 12 '12 at 12:04
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@rezx: "Use tar" is an answer to your posed question. To find out how it works, issue `man tar`. – Daniel Andersson May 12 '12 at 12:16
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founded ' tar cvf output_filename.tar /path/to/dir1 ' ^_^ – rezx May 12 '12 at 12:17
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u may vote to delete the post. – rezx May 12 '12 at 12:22
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Simply use cat:
cat file1 file2 file3 > output
If you want to combine all files in the current directory:
cat * > output
If you need to adjust the order of the files in the output, use echo first to get all filenames:
echo *
Then supply them in the desired order to cat.
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@rezx: Well, `cat` just *combines* the files into a single target (as requested). It doesn't store any information to get the original files back. If you want a file archive, then, yes, `tar` is a much better choice ;) – Oliver Salzburg May 12 '12 at 14:39
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cool, but what if i hve 50 files i cant write every file name, cant i use *.* ? – rezx May 12 '12 at 15:39
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