Thread: I have not viewed the copying i require.

i've exhausted 3 hours on google testing to detect the solution to this. i have a folder full of .txt registers and registers that got misextentioned, but are thought to be .txt registers. i need to mix total of them into one large .txt file. cat *.* bigfile.txt doesn't run, since *.* isn't a file or folder, so how do i said it all? if * isn't all then how the eff do i say it??

A individual mark ("*") is a glob which way it matches all files in the modern directory

I except your mistake is in the birdsong to cat:
Codification:
$ cat * bigfile.txt
would affix the substance of all files and "bigfile.txt" and output it to the depot (textbook signal). If you necessity to instead store that output, you impoverishment to use signal redirection, using the ">" operator:
Code:
$cat * > bigfile.txt

yes i see my mistake now impart you now it's collection them i see the exploit. position i wasn't swing in the > before the aim. then i was using the *.* instead of * i'm so utilised to winblows terminal that it's hard to modify over.

*.*" doesn't operate in Linux since Linux does not need that registers have extensions. It doesn't even have any conception of them at the OS level.