Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation
On 2011-08-24, RiverWind <riverwind@shellworld.net> wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the linux cookbook, which consists of over five-
> hundred html files. I am wanting to concatenate them all into one
> big neat file, with all of the smaller files in perfect order. Now
> I know that "cat" can do this, but the file naming protocol is a
> bit strange. The names of the smaller files have to accommodate
> both "parts" and "sections", which makes for an interesting naming
> format. For instance, the first is named "cookbook1.html#SEC1." I
> tried the following command.
How 'bout just downloading one nice big neat pdf file?
http://www.usinglinux.org/docu/guides/linuxcookbook-1.2.pdf
You could convert that to html with 'pdftohtml'. Whether the resulting
document would meet your rigorous standards, I dunno.
If not, if you find the names of the html files in your possession
inconvenient, why not rename them?
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