You know, the whole point of cat is that you don't need to use it in a loop. It ...

agumonkey · on Dec 4, 2014

Can you explain a little more ?

scott_karana · on Dec 4, 2014

You can just do this:

  cat $(ls -1rt) > complete.ts

agumonkey · on Dec 4, 2014

Aight, I thought he meant globbing, I was worried about order. Point taken.

scott_karana · on Dec 5, 2014

Well, he probably did mean globbing.

I suspect glob collation is the same as the collation that `ls` uses for any given locale, so... :-)

agumonkey · on Dec 5, 2014

And AFAIK, globbing can't be told to order by time, thus producing an interesting director's cut of the original video (I actually tried).